Devrimci Doğu Kültür Ocakları
The Devrimci Doğu Kültür Ocakları ( DDKO for short in German Revolutionary Cultural Associations of the East ) were a Kurdish Marxist-Leninist organization in Turkey that existed between 1969 and 1971. The DDKO was the first specifically Kurdish political organization in decades. After the Azadi and the Xoybûn , which were active in the early years of the Turkish Republic, there was no "Kurdish" policy until the end of the 1960s.
The forerunners of the DDKO were the East Meetings , which were organized by the Türkiye İşçi Partisi . The Türkiye İşçi Partisi was the first party to include the Kurdish problem in its party program. The DDKO stood against the official state ideology and were in favor of equal rights for all peoples of Turkey. Their Marxist attitude was also directed against the feudal structures in Kurdish society.
The DDKO was founded in Ankara in May 1969. The association's program was published on May 24, 1969 in the Medeniyet Gazetesi . The chairman of the association was Yümnü Budak. In the same month an agency was opened in Istanbul, chaired by Necmettin Büyükkaya. In 1970, further agencies were established in the eastern Turkish cities of Ergani (October 13), Silvan (December 9) and Kozluk (December 28). On January 6, 1971, well-known personalities such as Naci Kutlay, Yusuf Ekinci, Tarık Ziya Ekinci and Mehdi Zana also founded a DDKO branch in Diyarbakır . The last branch opened in Batman on January 24, 1971 . The DDKO was active on a cultural level, so that writers like Musa Anter and authors like İsmail Beşikçi wrote for the DDKO.
After the military coup on March 12, 1971 , the DDKO was banned and its members charged.
See also
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- Martin Strohmeier and Lale Yalcin-Heckmann: The Kurds: History, Politics, Culture , CH Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-42129-7
- Abdülhaluk M. Çay : Her Yönüyle Kürt Dosyası , İlgi Kültür Sanat Yayınları, Istanbul 2010, ISBN 978-9944-978-62-0