Mehmet Şener
Mehmet Cahit Şener (* 1958 in Batman ; † November 1, 1991 in Qamishli ) was a leading and founding member and dissident of the PKK . He was murdered by his own party. His code name was Ahmet.
Life
Şener came from a Kurdish family. He had two brothers and a sister who also took part in the Kurdish liberation struggle. Şener participated in the founding of the PKK in the late 1970s and was a member of the organization's first central committee. Before the military coup in 1980 he was arrested and held in the notorious Diyarbakır Prison. Sener's elderly mother, Saliha, was one of the first women to organize civil resistance in front of the detention center. After his release after more than ten years in prison, Şener was drafted into the military and deserted. He came to the PKK training camp on the Bekaa plain , where he stayed for about a year. There he had a love affair with Sakine Cansız . Relations between men and women were forbidden in the PKK at the time under threat of the death penalty. Şener, who enjoyed a high reputation within the party for his participation in the prison resistance, came into opposition to Abdullah Öcalan , whom he openly criticized , at the party's 4th Congress (December 1990) . Şener is considered to be a co-founder of the so-called PKK-Vejîn, a short-lived Kurdish resistance organization outside the PKK. Şener ignored warnings from Cemil Bayık to withdraw the criticism. Şener vehemently called for an investigation into the killings of civilians in attacks on Kurdish villages in Mardin by PKK fighters, such as the Açıkyol and Pınarcık massacres . Öcalan initially had Şener arrested. After his escape from party custody, he stayed with some supporters, including Sarı Baran and Abdurrahman Kayıkçı, in the Kurdish region of Iraq and then came back to Syria with Kayıkçı. From Qamishli he planned to travel to Europe. Kayıkçı secretly contacted Öcalan by phone, apologized and revealed the whereabouts of Şeners. Öcalan sent a command that shot him in the apartment as an alleged traitor. A female cadre with the code name Dilan was killed with him. Öcalan instructed a comrade named Kanî to inform Cansız about Sener's death. This opened her:
“He's finally dead, we are saved, you are saved. [...] Another woman is said to have been in the house. Even more than a woman. One was caught alive. The other is said to have died. "
According to Evin Çiçek and according to Sakine Cansız, Öcalan celebrated his death with shots of joy.
“A short time later, gunshots could be heard. Then shouts, trills of joy, dance. [...] Later we learned that the management had announced Sener's death. "
İsmail Beşikçi , who had spent many years in prison because of his books on the Kurds, declared that nobody was holding an account for the murders within the PKK. There are hundreds of executions like that of Mehmet Şener in the PKK.
Individual evidence
- ^ Aliza Marcus: Blood and belief - The PKK and the Kurdish fight for independence, New York University Press, New York / London 2007, p. 147
- ^ Aliza Marcus: Blood and belief - The PKK and the Kurdish fight for independence. New York University Press, New York / London 2007, p. 150
- ↑ Gündem Haberleri: Sakine Cansız'ın eşinin Ölümünü kutlatmış. In: Sabah . January 16, 2013, accessed August 24, 2018 (Turkish).
- ↑ Cumhuriyet newspaper, October 12, 2010
literature
- Selim Çürükkaya : Susmak Oil Mektir! Berlin 2015
- Aliza Marcus: Blood and belief - The PKK and the Kurdish fight for independence, New York University Press, New York / London 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Şener, Mehmet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ahmet (alias); Şener, Mehmet Cahit (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish leadership and founding member as well as dissident of the PKK |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Batman |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1991 |
| Place of death | Qamishli , Syria |