Abdullah Öcalan

Abdullah Öcalan is the founder of Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Since his abduction in 1999, he has been imprisoned on the island of İmralı under aggravated conditions of confinement. In prison, he wrote more than ten books that revolutionized Kurdish politics. He writes extensively about history, philosophy, and politics and is considered a key figure for the political solution of the Kurdish question. Öcalan contributes to the discussion about the search for freedom and developed democratic confederalism as Read More