What
kind of "socialist"? PKK is entirely illegitimate in every sense
of the word. Perhaps PKK could be considered some kind of Maoist "political
party", but the kind that keeps issuing directives for terrorist
activities from
"pkk command"--
as can be seen even on their web pages.
| Ocalan's
ambitions were clearly defined in 1995 at the Fifth Congress of the PKK,
where the "Resolution on Internationalism" stated that "By effectively
arguing in favor of socialism and by spreading socialist ideas to the people
of the region, [the PKK] is the vanguard of the global socialist movement."
In 1984 the PKK was a founding member of the Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement (RIM), a sort of loosely structured Maoist version of Lenin's
Comintern that also includes Peru's Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso). Indeed,
the similarities between the PKK and the Shining Path are striking: like
the latter's founder, Abimael Guzman, Ocalan is a Maoist with global leadership
ambitions; their tactics are particularly
bloody, even by terrorist standards, and the main victims are civilians
who refuse to submit to their groups. Frequent targets include teachers,
members of village self-defense groups, and elected local officials. from
an
article by Michael Radu of the Foreign Policy Research Institute- Philadelphia,
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