founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Abdullah "Apo" Öcalan (born April 4, 1949) is the founding leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). This organization is an internationalist and freedom-fighting organization fighting for the rights of the Kurdish People and a socialist independent Kurdistan. It is based on a guerrilla system based on the Revolutionary People's War Strategy.
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Hegemonic powers often use assimilation as a tool when they are confronted with defiant ethnic groups. Language and culture are also carriers of potential resistance, which can be desiccated by assimilation. banning the native language and enforcing the use of a foreign language are effective tools. People who are no longer able to speak their native language will no longer cherish its characteristic, which are rooted in ethnic, geographic and cultural factors. Without the unifying element of language the uniting quality of collective ideas also disappear.