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contents Acknowledgements............................................................................................................ 4 Introduction........................................................................................................................5 Glossary ofterms and acronyms.......................................................................................7 Part 1: A briefhistory ofKurdish struggles....................................................................12 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 1 3 Bakur.................................................................................................................................. 14 Başûr..................................................................................................................................18 Rojava................................................................................................................................ 20 Rojhilat...............................................................................................................................23 contents Part 2: An introduction to democratic confederalism in Kurdistan..........................26 Introduction......................................................................................................................27 From Marxist-Leninism to democratic confederalism.................................................28 A diagram ofdemocratic autonomy in Bakur............................................................. .30 Democratic confederalism in practice in Bakur............................................................ 31 Democratic confederalism in practice in Rojava........................................................... 33 A diagram ofdemocratic confederalism in Rojava......................................................34 A call for critical solidarity............................................................................................... 38 Part 3: Democratic autonomy in Bakur......................................................................... 43 An interview with the Democratic Society Congress (DTK)........................................ 44 A conversation with the Wan Economic Commission................................................. 48 Workers' co-ops in the Wan region................................................................................ 54 An interview with the Women's Academy in Amed...................................................... 56 Part 4: Democratic confederalism in Rojava.................................................................61 A conversation with TEV-DEM's Bedran Gia Kurd....................................................... 62 A very serious women's revolution..................................................................................64 A conversation with Kongreya Star................................................................................ 70 A meeting with Kobanê's Democratic Youth Union...................................................... 72 Meeting the politicians.....................................................................................................75 Part 5: Voices from the struggles for freedom in Bakur...............................................81 Turkey's bloodiest massacre & displacement ofthe Kurds since the 1990s is happening now................................................................................................................. 82 The struggle for autonomy in Farqîn..............................................................................90 The struggle for autonomy in Cizîr.................................................................................95 Living with Turkish militarism in Bakur...................................................................... 101 LGBT struggles in Bakur................................................................................................ 105 Women on the frontlines ofKurdish struggles: an interview with JINHA............... 106
The Roboski massacre: An interview with Servet Encu, a survivor............................ 116 "They stole my childhood": The trauma ofbeing a Kurdish child in the 1990s...............122 From fascist to anti-militarist: An interview with a Turkish ex-soldier.................... 127 Imprisoned for singing in Kurdish: support Nûdem Durak...................................... 136 Interviews with Kurdish political prisoners................................................................. 139 "There is no justice in Turkey for Kurds": The imprisonment ofKurdish mayors........... 142 "These people were killed...their killers are free": A meeting with Meya-der in Cizîr........ 145 Popular struggle against Turkish military bases in Bakur.......................................... 147 Building autonomy in Turkey and Kurdistan: an interview with Revolutionary Anarchist Action..............................................................................................................150 Part 6: Ecological struggles in Bakur............................................................................157 Save Hasankeyf, stop the Ilısu dam.............................................................................. 158 An interview with Batman Ecology Assembly.............................................................. 175 Wan Economic Commission speak about ecology...................................................... 180 Part 7: The struggle against Daesh................................................................................182 Rebuilding Kobanê..........................................................................................................183 The Rojava revolution and the Islamic State: A clash ofideologies............................188 Part 8: Companies complicit in repression in Kurdistan...........................................194 Arms companies............................................................................................................. 195 A company profile: Otokar.............................................................................................198 A company profile: Aselsan........................................................................................... 200 In brief: more Turkish arms companies.......................................................................202 International arms company profile: Lockheed Martin............................................. 203 International arms company profile: BAE Systems....................................................205 In brief: International arms companies supplying the Turkish military..................208 Arms companies supplying the Turkish police........................................................... 209 Companies complicit in ecological destruction in Kurdistan...................................213 Companies involved in dams: Andritz..........................................................................214 Other companies involved in dams.............................................................................. 215 Mining companies..........................................................................................................216 Fracking...........................................................................................................................217 Tourism.... .......................................................................................................................218 A company profile: Turkish Airlines..............................................................................219 contents Part 9: Act in solidarity with the people ofKurdistan................................................221 Solidarity with prisoners...............................................................................................222 Solidarity with Kobanê.................................................................................................. 224 Other ways to act in solidarity.......................................................................................226 Links.................................................................................................................................227
Page 1 and 2: STRUGGLES FOR AUTONOMY in kurdistan
Page 3: STRUGGLES FOR AUTONOMY in kurdistan
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTION During 2015, we made v
Page 9 and 10: GLOSSARYOF TERMS AND ACRONYMS Kurdi
Page 11 and 12: DAESH: The Islamic State ofIraq and
Page 13 and 14: power base in the Silêmanî (Sulay
Page 15 and 16: Until the First World War, Kurdish
Page 17 and 18: With a vision ofan independent Kurd
Page 19 and 20: terrorism was wide and was used to
Page 21 and 22: When Kurdish calls for independence
Page 23 and 24: They filled their colonial armies w
Page 25 and 26: Across the border in Turkey, Presid
Page 27 and 28: End notes 1. http://news.am/eng/new
Page 29 and 30: DEMOCRATIC CONFEDERALISM IN KURDIST
Page 31 and 32: ureaucracies. According to Öcalan,
Page 33 and 34: Democratic confederalism in practic
Page 35 and 36: Democratic confederalism in practic
Page 37 and 38: CONFEDERALISM IN ROJAVA commissions
Page 39 and 40: The social contract In January 2014
Page 41 and 42: Also, the existence ofa centralised
Page 43 and 44: other measures like sending people
Page 45 and 46: PART 3: democratic autonomy IN BAKU
Page 47 and 48: language, public affairs, religion,
Page 49 and 50: It started 40 years ago. It’s not
Page 51 and 52: We are just at the beginning. Maybe
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Now the members ofthe commission ar
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produce. The idea is Abdullah Öcal
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war, hope, victory and death all at
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example, [Figen points to someone n
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PART 4: democratic confederalism in
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chapter). He stated that youths are
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Many friends have commented on how
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“Women must be able to organise t
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Ofcourse, there is plenty still to
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they want to use it. In Palestine,
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organisation is not just for Kurdis
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meeting the politicians During our
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in the region; and the Economic and
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LGBT movements in Rojava We asked t
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PART 5: VOICES FROM THE STRUGGLES F
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Baran's hometown is just one ofa nu
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Meanwhile, state violence intensifi
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“Are you aware ofwhat is going on
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End notes 1. http://en.tihv.org.tr/
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On the 10th August, the residents o
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had been shelled. The blood ofYakup
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The struggle for autonomyin Cizîr
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Interviewwith Zubeyde Dalmış abou
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Interviewwith Ayşe* aboutthe event
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living with turkish militarism in b
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fighters trying to cross to Kobanê
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LGBT struggles in BAKUR In Turkey's
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y the police, including death threa
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situation. To the same extent that
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the taxi the police fired a teargas
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Interviewwıth jinhajournalist Sary
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CW: Has the revolution in Rojava gi
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Corporate Watch: What was life like
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them in thirty-four coffins on the
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The culpabilityof the US The attack
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Last year, Corporate Watch visited
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Between 1998 and 2004, I left Yeni
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From Fascistto anti-militarist: An
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organisation made up ofKurdish vill
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convention.”In 1994 the PKK were
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I had been in the Turkish military
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Anarchists, socialists and anti-mil
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Nûdem's family says that the real
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INTERVIEWS WITH KURDISH POLITICAL P
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The worst torture is the way that p
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evidence to prosecute me, too. They
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"These people were killed...their k
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Popular struggle againstTurkish mil
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their gas grenades offthem and thre
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For example [the Italian anarchist,
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From 1989 to 2000 anarchism was abo
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Roboski massacre, which occurred du
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PART 6: ECOLOGICAL STRUGGLES IN BAK
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that there used to be many restaura
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In 1990, Turkey cut offthe flow oft
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The campaign to list Hasankeyf and
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An Interviewwith Murat, a Hasankeyf
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Ottoman, Kurdish, Syrian, Egyptian
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All ofthe problems here are about w
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are 120,000 lira. There are five pe
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Interviewwith Bİlal Memİş in Has
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An interviewwith Batman EcologyAsse
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connections with us. It’s especia
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CW: Earlier on, you said that women
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The same thing happens in agricultu
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Rebuilding Kobanê This article app
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The Kurdish Regional Government (KR
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Despite the lack ofoutside help, pe
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But as the villages' damaged struct
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much ofIraq’s Anbar province. But
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adical Kurdish movement came ofage
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arms companies
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President Tayyip Erdoğan stated: "
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production ofthe tank too. Company
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aselsan basic information Traded on
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internationalarms company profile:
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internationalarms company profile:
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Resistance Anti-militarists target
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arms companies supplying the Turkis
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End notes 1. https://www.caat.org.u
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companies complicit in ecological d
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in brief: other companies involved
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fracking Shell The Anglo-Dutch oil
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Turkish Airlines: a companyprofile
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PART 9: act in solidaritywith the p
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For solidarity with the families of
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Kurmanji or Arabic, and that local
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links JINHA Women's News Agency: ji
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Kurdistan is currently divided betw
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