the inception of pkk was a very “weird” time for turkey. in 1980 there was a coup d’eta following a large scale years-long popular socialist uprising. this uprising was first followed by reactionary opposition. it was called right vs left but it was basically communists vs fascists. the coup government was very brutal. they spared most of the fascists and communists were subjected to unimaginable methods of torture, and executions.
also after the coup, kurdish was forbidden, location names were changed and kurdish population was met with insane oppresion.
in this climate, any force that countered that oppression would be welcome. that’s what pkk did. they are communists, but have swayed towards right. especially in syria (as pyd). they seem to want to become the government rather than become a socialist force now.
this article is a nice summary. i don’t have pinpoint exaples, sorry.
they always had their political parties banned and set up under a new name. until recently i voted for that party. i would still do but we have a decent communist party now with delegates in the parliament.
But if they are leftist communists how is that hurting the proletariat? I need citations and sources on this whole thing
The thing is, they own the territory that US uses to seize Northeastern Syria’s oil… And they are complicit in it https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/8/2/syria-slams-us-firms-oil-deal-with-sdf-as-null-and-void
Thank you for the clear explanation
That, and as the other commenter noted, they do have more shady dealings than that…
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the inception of pkk was a very “weird” time for turkey. in 1980 there was a coup d’eta following a large scale years-long popular socialist uprising. this uprising was first followed by reactionary opposition. it was called right vs left but it was basically communists vs fascists. the coup government was very brutal. they spared most of the fascists and communists were subjected to unimaginable methods of torture, and executions.
also after the coup, kurdish was forbidden, location names were changed and kurdish population was met with insane oppresion.
in this climate, any force that countered that oppression would be welcome. that’s what pkk did. they are communists, but have swayed towards right. especially in syria (as pyd). they seem to want to become the government rather than become a socialist force now.
this article is a nice summary. i don’t have pinpoint exaples, sorry.
they always had their political parties banned and set up under a new name. until recently i voted for that party. i would still do but we have a decent communist party now with delegates in the parliament.