Abdullah Öcalan Quotes

Women's development is revenge for slavery

Heval Mizgin is truly exemplary in terms of knowledge, tactical authority and connection to organizational principles.

Neither total rejection nor complete recognition of the state is useful for the democratic efforts of civil society. The overcoming of the state, particularly the nation-state, is a long-term process.

The hegemonic powers also used religion and nationalism to preserve their supremacy. In all parts of Kurdistan, Islam is a state religion used as a tool for controlling the population. Even if these regimes embrace secularism, the entanglement of political and religious institutions is obvious.

3. Democratic confederalism is based on grass roots participation. Its decision-making process lie with the communities. Higher levels only serve the coordination and implementation of the will of the communities that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For one year that send their delegates to the general assemblies. For one year they are both mouthpiece and executive institutions. However, the basic decision-making power rests with the local grassroots institutions.

The century of women's freedom is the century of women's freedom

2. Democratic confederalism is a non-state social paradigm. It is not controlled by a state. At the same time, democratic confederalism is the organisation of democracy and culture.

Sexism, just as nationalism, is an ideology through which power is generated and nation-states are built. Sexism is not a function of biological differences.

It is not possible to take the country without war

The most important problem for freedom in a social context is thus family and marriage. When the woman marries, she is in fact enslaved. It is impossible to imagine another institution that enslaves like marriage. The most profound slaveries are established by the institution of marriage, slaveries that become more entrenched within the family.

Superiority of existence and ideology cannot easily be broken. The youth (and even the children) are subjected to the same strategies and tactics, ideological and political propaganda, and oppressive systems as the woman - adolescence, like femininity, is not a physical but social fact.

The social subjugation of woman was the vilest counter-revolution ever carried out.

Even if 100,000 people die this year, our movement cannot be disrupted - 1992

States only administrate, while democracies govern.

Legal protection is not only for women, it is valid for everyone. Women should be able to protect themselves. I say rose theory. I thought about the rose. The rose, in order to protect itself, produces satires. There is also a natural defense of a flower and a plant.