Ali Haydar Kaytan

Ali Haydar Kaytan (* Hengirvan in Tunceli ) is one of the founding cadres of the underground organization Workers' Party of Kurdistan . His code name is Fuat.

Functions

In the initial phase, Kaytan was particularly responsible for setting up the organization in his home town of Dersim ( Tunceli ). After the military coup of 1980 he fled abroad and took over the management of a training camp of the organization in northern Iraq and became a member of the central committee of the party. At the third PKK Congress in 1986, Abdullah Öcalan initiated an investigation against Ali Haydar Kaytan and had him arrested. He had to write a detailed self-criticism and was then entrusted by Öcalan with tasks in Europe and Germany. In 1988 he was arrested in Germany and was on trial in Düsseldorf. In 1994 he was dismissed and moved back to the top management (then: "Presidential Council"). In 1996, Öcalan opened another case against him. After self-criticism, he was appointed as the person responsible for Europe. Kaytan held the office during the capture of Ocalan.

He is currently in the Kandil Mountains and belongs to the so-called Executive Council of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan , a kind of superordinate organization of the PKK that is supposed to form the nucleus of a new society.