KURDISH NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS

"When in cource of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinion of mankind requires that they should declare the couses which shall impel them to the seperation...whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter it, or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. "

		           --United States Decloration of Independence

The PKK are unique among Kurdish guerilla groups because of their progressive attitude toward education and their inclusion of women as fighters [Photo: Ed Kashi, "When the Borders Bleed"].	Leyla Zana is an imprisoned Kurdish parliamentarian in Turkey

"...Kurdish people throughout southern Turkey, very ordinary, humble people, have decided they would rather die standing up than spend their lives on their knees...it was the most extraordinary and inspiring sight of my life...I hope one day they have the kind of freedoms we take for granted."

   			- Michael Ignatieff, writer and broadcaster

• Campaign of Lies by Yasar Kemal
• The Dark Cloud Over Turkey by Yasar Kemal
• The Kurdish Experience by Amir Hassanpour
  • National Awakening
  • Middle Class Nationalism
  • Kurdish Society
  • Radical Nationalism
  • The Movement in Iran
  • The Movement in Turkey
  • Prospects
• Mad Dreams Of Independence: The Kurds Of Turkey and the PKK by Chris Kutschera
• PKK 5th Congress Update by Ismet Imset.
• Ismail Besikci by Parast Rojhilat
• The Politics of Green and Yellow by Azad Sul aiman.
• Kurds in Armenia by the Kurdish Institute in Brussels
• When the Kurds Made History ("Short Story"-election in free Kurdistan) by Salah Aziz

No change in "Kurdish violations" by Ismet Imset (April, 1995)

Turkish media adjusts further to military discipline by Ismet Imset (April, 1995)

Arm The Spirit Gopher Site

A poision gas victim in Kurdistan (picture)

KURDISH LEADERS:

Mustafa Barzani

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