The Commander of the People's Defense Center (NPG) Decision Center, Murat Karayilan, wrote an article on the 25th anniversary of the October 9 conspiracy against the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan, stating that today's resistance in Zap relies on the resistance of Abdullah Ocalan, which is done against the torture and genocide system in Imrali.
Murat Karayilan's article is as follows:
"First of all, we strongly condemn the International Conspiracy against Leader Apo that started on October 9, 1998 and all the forces participated in this conspiracy. We, in the person of Halit Oral and Rojbin Arap, have turned all our heroic efforts against the International Conspiracy against the future and existence of the people in the person of Leader Apo into a ball of fire with the slogan "You cannot darken our day." They remember the actions with respect and gratitude. This heroic attitude of theirs became the line of struggle against the International Conspiracy. We promise to keep the memory of these heroic comrades alive by defeating the Conspiracy and confirm our will in this matter.
THE CHAIRMAN STEP WAS A NEW BEGINNING IN KURDISTAN
Throughout history, leaders have played a decisive role in protecting the existence and freedom of the societies in which they belong. The Kurdish society, which has deep roots in history and has a rich cultural base, has suffered a lot because of the leadership vacuum that it has experienced in the centuries since birth. The people who could not solve the problem of leadership cannot be freed from subjugation and subjugation. Only people who have been able to create their own leadership can achieve existence and success. That's why in almost every phase of history, every society, people and class that wanted to be oppressed and ruled, first of all, they were deprived of their true leaders. The ruling powers have strengthened their dominance by leaving the communities without a leader. Because a society without a leader is not possible to develop a conscious and systematic resistance against the system of occupation and power that is developing. Therefore, the oppressor-killer-authority forces first target the leadership of society and classes.
In this context, the International Conspiracy is an attack against the free future of our people. To leave our people without a leader, to keep them under domination and to go through genocide is a conspiratorial attack. The people of Kurdistan have been under power for so long because they have not had their true and natural leadership for centuries. In this regard, it is not necessary to talk about examples of false and cooperative leadership that has developed a lot in Kurdistan. What is important is that people reach the general and true Leadership.
Due to the difficult geography where they live and because they have always faced attacks in history, a resistant and fighting character has been formed in the Kurdish society. In Kurdistan, although they were more brave and warlike, they did not have a war strategy and therefore did not have a special tactic. The main reason for this is the lack of strategic leadership. That is why there is not much strategy in the Kurdish war. Without strategy it is impossible to develop rich tactics in the practice of war. In fact, strategic impotence has led to tactical impotence. Therefore, in the Kurdish society, which relies on a social style with tribes and federations, it was able to have the power of resistance, when the warrior was a helper for an army, they played a very successful role, warriors and pioneers, conquerors. But when they fight alone, the same success rate is not achieved. Because a war strategy and its tactical performance have not been developed. The main reason for this is the lack of strategic leadership. Unless we consider some exceptions like Selahattin Ayyubi, the history of the war and the Kurdish line in the centuries after Alexander was more like this. In this regard, Leader Apo's appearance on the stage of history at a critical time is also the beginning of a new historical process in Kurdistan.
THE TIME OF THE GUERILLA'S CROSSING TO KURDISTAN
Leaders do not only have military qualities. Leadership also means individuals who live together in political and cultural aspects, they have very strong relations with the society, they have close relations with the characteristics of the revolution at that time, they have a strong understanding of their history and eras and they have characteristics who can interpret their historical principles in a strong way. When Leader Apo made a leadership development in Kurdistan in this context, he also defined the struggle strategy and paved the way for the development of an important historical process. In the early stages of the emergence of the strategic leadership of Kurdistan, the process of building a struggle strategy began.
Vietnam, which achieved victory in the 1970s with the People's Long-Term War Strategy, became a source of inspiration for all the people and the oppressed classes. Mahir Çayan, İbrahim Kaypakkaya and Deniz Gezmiş also left with the same inspiration and excitement. Leader Apo, as a follower of the same generation and as a person who made the emergence of leadership, initially focused on the Strategy of the People's Long-term War and believed in this strategy of struggle.
The first step of this strategy is guerrilla warfare. Of course, in the beginning, it was not clear how this would develop in Kurdistan. Such a thing was out of the question. Because everything was under construction. Therefore, Leader Apo's main agenda was to first clarify the ideological line and therefore the perspective of the struggle, transform it into a program, move from an ideological group to the process of building a party and then become a guerilla. It was thought that the resistance of Hîlwan-Sîwereg could be a spring in guerrilla warfare, and for this the Leader wrote an article that we can call the regulation of the guerrilla movement of 1979 and presented it to the agenda of the center that carried out the resistance. On this basis, Mehmet Karasungur, who was responsible for the resistance of Hîlwan-Sêwereg, organized a guerrilla group of 12 people for the first time in Hîlwan and started the struggle for the resistance of Sîwereg with that group. Since the resistance of Siwêreg did not progress in the desired direction and was influenced by the style of the Kurdish peasant war and turned into a positional war that we call the 'Battle of Kozik', it has not been allowed to play the role of guerrilla warfare. However, with great creativity, in order to build the military-technical infrastructure of the process in a parallel way, the leadership transferred its personnel, including Kemal Pîr and Mahsum Korkmaz (Egîd), to the Lebanon-Palestine area, promoted the training opportunity and allowed go through life. During the return of the group after the training, both Sewereg's resistance and general resistance to the right direction, events like the capture of Comrade Kemal, etc. happened The enemy, who got information about the movement plan from the documents they obtained, brought forward the intervention of September 12 and with the fascist junta in power, as is known, the fascist intervention in the revolutionary process in Turkey and Kurdistan took place.
In response to this, the Leader and the Freedom Movement felt the need for more extensive preparation. Therefore, after the well-known withdrawal decision, a stronger preparation process was initiated in the Lebanon-Palestine area. This process developed mainly through ideological and military training. It was also a period when, especially in the First Conference of the Party, there were discussions about how the revolutionary movement could intervene in the process and with which strategy to respond to the fascist-military junta regime. The leadership presented broad perspectives in this context. As a result of the presented perspectives and discussions, it was determined that the exit will be done with armed propaganda. It was discussed that the armed propaganda groups in Kurdistan could play the role of Iskra newspaper as the key to get out of the organizational crisis that took place in the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1900. On this basis, the First PKK Conference considered armed propaganda as the main outlet of the Party. In this context, the theoretical preparations of the guerrillas were more in-depth. In November 1981, in the historical document called "The Role of Force in Kurdistan and the Policy of National Liberation" prepared by Leader Apo, the framework of the struggle strategy of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle was revealed in the most comprehensive way. In this sense, one can say that the theoretical perspective of guerrillaism has become clear in this way. As it is known, this process was officially started with the honorable Step of August 15, on the basis of preparations under the leadership of our late commander Egîd.
The basis of the self-sacrificing guerilla is the ideology of the leader. The issue of how leader Apo created guerillaism and guerilla style is an important issue. It may be difficult to explain this topic in a few sentences. However, it is a very important point that Leader Apo, with the analysis he developed in the process of the first group in Ankara, has reached the level where he knows the character of the oppressor Turkish state well and analyzes the social structure of the Kurds correctly. Because based on this determination and the results achieved by the Leader, he believed that the War of National Liberation of Kurdistan would not be so easy; Therefore, there is a definite need for very strong militants, with determination, character and leaders; Therefore, first of all, he realized that it is necessary to train such talented, brave and loyal personnel, and he started preparations accordingly. The leader started this work in Ankara when the seeds of the movement were first planted. Because in addition to this, the Leader had determined from the beginning that a successful resistance cannot be developed against the oppressive Turkish state with an ordinary party structure and some tribal, traditional and warrior characteristics as before. Of course, according to historical processes, this important decision has been reached. That's why the leadership focused on training professional staff from the beginning.
In this context, the Leader had a wide and great ideological work both in the Ankara process and in the subsequent processes in Lebanon, Palestine, the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy and the Central Party School in Damascus. In all these educational processes that were carried out with an unending will, the Leader developed the work of building people's confidence, self-confidence and will based on the analysis of the personality. Acquiring faith, self-belief and will of a person is manifested in practice with courage, sacrifice and high will.
In fact, this quality of staffing that the Leader developed at the beginning, emerged with examples of courage and sacrifice during the development of the political struggle with the formation of the party; and then in the person of the high-willed cadres Mazlum Dogan, Ferhat Kurtay, Mehmet Xeyri Durmuş, Kemal Pîr, Akîf Yilmaz and Ali Çiçek who did not surrender in the resistance of the prisons, he showed himself with a very interesting resistance. The spirit that came out of this staff position, later took shape in the person of Egîd's friend in the August 15th Step and with the Zilanbunun, the selfless spirit of raising the will. This ideological truth that Leader Apo has brought out among the cadres and guerrillas has brought out a very serious resistance potential. Because we have seen in practice in the person of thousands of comrades that this ideological truth, when it comes out with the defeat of the social characteristics of Kurds, turns into courage, sacrifice and a unique will. In other words, the ideological belief, determination and philosophical approach that has been given to man has developed the formation of cadres and command by bringing out a great potential.
BUILDING A STYLE OF GUERRILLA FIGHTING WAS NOT EASY IN KURDISTAN
But despite this development and the formation of a very deep and meaningful personality, the tactical richness or tactfulness that the military line requires has not developed to the same extent. This is a topic in itself. War is the most important area in which man expresses his true spiritual qualities. We may say that it is a single field. The battlefield does not accept lies and arrogance. Whatever the nature of a person is, it is the same in practice. It may be a bit difficult to explain this in a few sentences, but this is a very important and interesting fact. In other words, the battlefield is the field where people show their true self, not the field where they want to show themselves in a different way; In other words, it is the place where the truth is revealed. In other words, in the battlefield, human spiritual characteristics are not hidden, they are revealed in all their aspects.
There is a style of war in Kurdish social personality. This type of war is more like a field war, a positional war or a duel. He lacks much intelligence (as the Chinese call it trickery) and tactical flexibility. In this regard, a style of war that we can call hand-to-hand fighting is developing more in the psychology of the Kurdish people. This fact emerged more clearly in the process after the August 15th Step. For example, when Rêberti explains the guerilla style, he specifically defines the characteristics of guerillas as follows: "guerrilla is a hit and run tactic; tracking the enemy and striking from the weakest place; When the enemy advances or is in a strong position, retreat and lose yourself." However, in practice, when the enemy actually came, they stayed all day, sometimes even for days, and took part in the battle positions. These practices, which we briefly mentioned above, first appeared in Siwêreg, and then mostly in Botan as a system of fighting positions.
The leader made a lot of efforts to overcome this. The leader made deep and multifaceted analyses. Actually, he was trying to understand the guerilla's attack and ambush tactics with examples from his life, like how he laid an ambush against Cimo in his childhood and defeated him. In this matter, the Leader took some extraordinary practical measures. For example, he wanted to give only 120 bullets to each person. For this reason, one of the 4 chargers in the boxes was removed. In short, carrying more than 120 bullets is prohibited. Because more bullets can increase the tendency of long-term conflict. This causes the fighters to abandon the guerilla style and enter the style of the positions. Fighting at the positions all day or for days means insisting on the old Kurdish style of war and not keeping the guerilla line. That's why Rêber Apo took such practical measures in addition to all other educational activities. Leader Apo had to resort to extreme efforts and measures in order to build a guerrilla line in Kurdistan. Based on this, countless orders and analyzes were developed; Only with a very strong effort were some real developments made regarding the guerilla style.
In fact, we know that guerrilla warfare has been waged in Kurdistan throughout history. Especially in the work Anabasis, which describes the years 400 BC, it is interestingly revealed that the Kurdish fighters at that time fought big battles with tactics such as hit-and-run tactics. Although there are no sources before that, it is known that later this war was fought by the Kurds. But over time, especially in the last few centuries, the more static situation of the resistance in the palaces and the war in the positions gives another form. A fact that we must underline here is that although we have mentioned this style of war in the person of the Kurds in this article, at the same time this style of war prevails in all the peoples of the Middle East. Guerrilla style of war first emerged against Napoleon, who had a large army in Spain, and then, although it was carried out piecemeal in many places, it turned into a strategy mainly in China and became a war strategy that grew and deepened in Vietnam. and spread in different countries of the world. However, this has not developed much in the Middle East.
In this regard, we can say that our leadership brought the style of guerrilla warfare to Kurdistan and the Middle East. For example, the Palestinians also wanted to be guerrillas, but they could not do it. In them, the war of positions is more ahead. However, when he could not fight the battle of the positions, this time he developed a style of self-sacrifice. The area where fedayism first developed was Palestine. Fedayism came to the fore in Palestine, not guerillaism. Again, the war waged by Omar Muhtar against Italy in Libya is a clear example of the war of self-sacrifice. In short, bringing the logic of guerrilla warfare to Kurdistan was not so easy; It was difficult. We can say that the leadership has taken some steps by developing very strong ideological-organizational measures.
The most advanced level of the old war style of Kurdistan is the Peshmerga style of war. Peshmerga style of war is not guerilla style of war. It is a style that always relies on a liberated state or region. Of course, this is also a sign of resistance and when these conditions arise, the Peshmerga also fights, but due to its own character, it is not a way to fight within the internal lines of a country, in a siege. On the other hand, guerrilla warfare is a form of warfare that can go to any part of the country and show the ability to fight against a large army with its creative maneuvers and tactics. This style of war actually developed in the Middle East with the Kurdistan guerillas. This was possible to a certain extent with the endless work of the Leader.
Guerrilla in Kurdistan did not develop easily. He developed by struggling with difficulties. Of course, what we consider as difficulties here are the difficulties in maintaining the style. In addition, the geographical, climatic and enemy difficulties are different. In Kurdistan, not only the difficulties of entering the military guerilla line, but also the difficulties of entering the organizational line have emerged in a multifaceted way. There was a great struggle against lines of advance and tactical situations. Especially after the martyrdom of comrade Egîd in 1986, some personalities came forward and saw that a place had been opened for them, and this caused extraordinary situations to develop. It is known that these individuals are derailing both the military line, the organizational line, and the revolutionary mass line, trying to dominate the feudal conspiratorial approach more. This style, which developed as a kind of counter, kept many tribes and masses of people away from the movement and did not develop the battle line, it drew them to the right-wing defense line.
At the same time, the simplicity of the Apoyi movement has been undermined by playing the organizational line and with various tricks and intrigues and has caused hundreds of cadres to be eliminated. Against all these, the leadership line's struggle developed very hard. By promoting the struggle, the leadership was able to prevent the destruction caused by individuals such as Hogir, Kor Cemal, Terzı Cemal and Zekiyê without a finger, which we call the group of four gangs, and to bring guerrillaism to the line in this period. Some progress has been made on this basis. In other words, the guerilla struggle as a purely ideological struggle can develop in Kurdistan only by developing the line struggle in a multilateral way. This has been achieved to a certain extent by the training of permanent personnel by the leadership on the basis of training and interventions in the field of struggle, as well as the ideological-organizational struggle based on the analysis and instructions that have always been developed. On this basis, the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla entered a stage where the people of Kurdistan were under the pressure of genocidal policies and were taking their last breath.
BEHIND EVERY DEVELOPMENT IN KURDISTAN THERE IS A GUERILLA
Although the masses approached it with hesitation and doubt at the beginning, as they slowly realized that the resistance did not end like other classic uprisings, it grew like snow, a process of trust and confidence began among the masses. . On this basis, the social reality that was about to die stood up and came to the field in the form of a rebellion. In other words, the line of guerrilla struggle that Leader Apo developed in Kurdistan actually saved the Kurdish community from extinction. After coming to its senses, it has become a social reality that does not surrender in the face of enemy attacks, protects itself, identity, culture and land, fights for it and raises its children for it. Undoubtedly, the ideological line is the basis for achieving this, but the main role played by the guerrilla has developed with this ideological line. In this regard, the revival of the social structure in Kurdistan and the beginning of the rebellion process was primarily to protect the bodies of the guerrillas and revive the memory of the guerrillas.
In other societies and peoples, the masses take to the streets due to pressure and economic problems, but in Kurdistan and in that environment of great pressure in the 1990s, at a time when accidental killings were at their peak, tens of thousands of people were the main target. going to the streets, taking care of the funeral of the guerrillas and keeping alive the memory of the martyrs. The social movement in Kurdistan developed on this basis with a spiritual structure. In this regard, the role that the Leader gave to the guerrillas had its answer. In this way, the society saw itself again through the guerrilla struggle and became a society with a struggle for identity and freedom, and with it, the society experienced a renaissance. The society that has experienced revival has established its own organizations in all areas of life, and our people are thirsty for freedom, and now they have defined their goal of freedom. In this way, the freedom guerrilla of Kurdistan has become a form of struggle that gives so much confidence to the society, creates trust and paves the way for important developments.
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GUERILLA AND THE CHAIRMAN CANNOT BE BROKEN
There is a very strong bond between the Guerrilla and the Leader that cannot be broken. Guerrilla is a reality of great sacrifice and high will, which probably has few examples in the world, who can sacrifice everything, including his life, in the end of his faith and society. Guerrilla is a society that does not live for itself, but for its society, it sacrifices its life for the society and the values it believes in, and gives itself to the society as a whole. There is no individual or collective guerilla interest. It has no material interest. What is ahead in the guerrilla is the spiritual and ideological side. Therefore, every guerrilla is connected to the Leader with a deep spiritual strength. For this reason, every time he organizes activities, the slogan 'Long live Serok Apo!' raises Because the guerrillas believed in the Leader and sacrificed their lives for him, they joined the ranks of the struggle. In this regard, there has always been a very strong bond between the guerrillas and the Leader. The leader criticizes a lot, often harshly, but the organizational structure that he trusts and loves the most is the guerrilla. The same applies to our people; Our people see the guerilla as their eyes and always want to win. Despite all the hardships the guerrilla has faced, the pains he has suffered and all the costs he has paid, the guerrilla always fights with the ideal of becoming a warrior worthy of the Leader and his people. Because of this very strong spiritual connection, all the games that were planned and performed on the guerrillas, as a result, failed.
For example, in the history of our struggle, some personalities rose up who provoked from time to time, even pressured the organization to some extent and thus influenced some people. The same practice occurred in the guerrillas. For example, those people whom we called Hogir or Parmaksiz Zeki and others... When the organization took a stand and ran away from the organization, they had to go on their own. They could not influence anyone and take them with them. It is true that they wanted to play on the guerilla, but in the end they were left alone. The gang group of 2003-2004 may be mentioned. That group worked inside for many years. He formed a group according to himself, but in the process of breaking up, he was left alone. Did they do any harm? Of course they did. They broke even. They caused many people to break up, but no one went with them. The survivors are still alone. Why? Because the Kurdistan Guerrillas are a field of sacrifice. Sacrifice does not depend on money, it does not depend on people. Self-sacrifice can only be achieved by relying on deep ideological-philosophical truth. The source of this is Leader Apo. Therefore, every guerilla is ultimately loyal to Leader Apo. When it was cut off, it meant that there was infidelity. Even when he is unfaithful, no one follows him and most of all he goes to sit alone. That's why they can't come out in front of the movement in the form of another organization. Some of them may be countered by enemy forces, but it cannot be a different ideological organization. Therefore, the efforts made in this area are all failing. The strongest philosophical-ideological relationship between leadership and guerrilla sacrifice is trust and determination. Therefore, the enemy has not been able to achieve results in any provocations against the guerrillas. It can affect individuals individually, but it can never affect a group. This is due to the guerilla's loyalty to the Leader's line, due to the guerilla's attitude of self-sacrifice and determination.
THE MILITARY LINE OF THE CHAIRMAN WAS NOT PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED IN HIS TIME
What I am saying now may be seen as a paradox, but with the fact that I mentioned above, when it is deeply researched, then it relies on the social reality as a fact, despite our high loyalty and endless sacrifice. They saw that the guerrillas and commanders never reached the level of carrying out Leader Apo's military line in a competent manner. Certainly, if Leader Apo's military policy was understood and implemented correctly at the time, the situation would be very different now. As we know, many historical and very important opportunities were missed in the past. Despite the sincerity, honesty, determination and high sacrifice of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas, there were always problems due to the lack of tactical leadership. Of course, we are talking about the fact that the method, tempo and multifaceted and deep tactics of Leader Apo were not implemented satisfactorily in the field.
Of course, an effort was made to implement this, but it did not reach the level of satisfaction. Since it was not satisfactory, the Leader evaluated this as a low cooperation, criticized it and defined it as steps to lay the foundations of an international conspiracy, which is of that kind. When considering the causes of the conspiracy, the leadership pointed to two forces in particular: false friendship and poor fellowship. This is a very historical and important situation. Apoyi's leadership step in Kurdistan was realized as a strategic leadership, but the tactical leadership did not take place at the same tempo. This is completely a matter of criticism and criticism. When Leader Apo evaluates this situation, he considers it as a matter of criticism for himself, but it is essentially a matter that he criticizes a lot. Yes, our leader criticizes in his evaluations along with extensive criticisms, but basically we are the ones who should criticize. This should be determined concretely and the necessary action should be taken.
SUFFICIENT COOPERATION WITH THE CHAIRMAN WOULD MEAN THE COLLISION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY
Of course, there have always been efforts to end this deficiency. There are still extensive efforts to implement the leadership's military line. Especially since the last 3-4 years, the internal struggle against dogmatism, insistence on previous trends, liberalism, which is like a barrier in front of the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas, has been conducted and is still being conducted. Therefore, there has been progress in recent years. Especially with the deepening of the ideology within the guerrillas, the reconstruction brought about changes, branching out on this basis, mastery of techniques, methods of movement and new tactical steps. The development of the guerrillas of the new era has been reflected in this context.
If it wasn't for the tactical step of the new guerilla era, the fascist Turkish state might have achieved results based on the concept in the last 8 years. However, with Leader Apo's position in Imraliyeh, the new tactical steps of the guerrillas, especially the improvement in the level of expertise in the method of semi-mobile team warfare in the field and the most important transition of the war from the ground to the underground , with the underground resistance war and the semi-mobile team war on the ground, the plan of the fascist Turkish state was defeated. Although the Turkish army uses the most advanced technology of the time, prohibited weapons and receives support from the KDP and international forces, it cannot achieve results. The reason for this is the level of the guerrillas with the efforts of tactical steps and the self-sacrificing spirit of Leader Apo.
The high level of self-sacrifice of the new tactical steps reached today, the implementation of the self-sacrifice and spirit of Apoyi in the person of Sara, Rüken, Bager, Avzem, Delil and Nalinan, as well as in the practice of North with the high spirit of self-sacrifice in the person of Zana, Work .
Today's guerrillas have reached a high level of dedication and show advanced performance as seen in the resistance of Zap, Avashin and Metina. At the same time, as we said, it has reached a level with new tactical steps. All this shows how the guerrillas of the 21st century should be. On the one hand, this situation gives an example to the classes and peoples who are fighting against their forces relying on high technology, and on the other hand, to stop the AKP-MHP-Ergenekon regime, which is fascist, tyrannical and genocidal and wants to become an imperial power in the Middle East. , for our people in terms of the struggle for existence and freedom, and for all peoples in terms of the democratic future, it shows a historical, important and valuable fact of resistance.
Certainly, if this reality of resistance is carried out at this level today, its most important source is Leader Apo's efforts of 50 years, as well as the resistance of the line of will, patience and unique art against the Imrali Torture System. It is very important that this line of leadership has brought the guerrillas to this important level in history, defeats the most advanced technology of the era, creates resistance against it and performs a strong performance. This is an attempt to put an end to the deficiency that Leader Apo's military line was not implemented in our history of struggle, the level of becoming a commander was not achieved. We do not exaggerate this, but it is a fact that significant progress has been achieved.
From now on, it can be seen that this will grow and turn into a line of victory, a method of struggle. The Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas, who are completely loyal to Leader Apo's line, will improve their current tactical performance even more and when they do this, they will definitely ensure victory, in the struggle of satisfactory cooperation with Leader Apo, they will have decisive results. win, with this the international conspiracy will fail. I remember with honor and respect the comrades who created epics of heroism and were martyred in this struggle, I want to point out that with their leadership in the line of Leader Apo, the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas as an invincible force will ensure victory and have this determination. .”