Mehmet Karasungur

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Mehmet Karasungur (born July 1, 1957 in the village of Sütlüce, Bingöl ; died May 2, 1983 in Iraq ) was a founding and Central Committee member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party . His battle name was Halit. Karasungur was Zaza .

Career

Mehmet Karasungur was born into a family with 12 children. He had eight sisters and three brothers. Mehmet Karasungur trained as a mathematics teacher in Erzurum and worked as a teacher in Kahramanmaraş after completing his training . Karasungur was transferred to Hakkari because of political activity. There he was also a union member. In 1976 Karasungur met Mehmet Hayri Durmuş and two years later gave up his job to become politically active. In Hilvan, the predecessor organization of the PKK, commonly called Kürdistan devrimcileri ("Kurdistan revolutionaries"), was killed with the Kurdish clan of Süleymanlar Halil Çavgun in Hilvan. To avenge the death, Kemal Pir and Karasungur were dispatched to head the organization there. Karasungur took part in the founding assembly of the PKK in 1978 in Fîs . He directed the military training of PKK fighters in Lebanon and was one of the first to lead the PKK's armed struggle after August 15.

death

Abdullah Öcalan accused Karasungur of spreading that he (Öcalan) had nothing more to say and that Karasungur and his buddies considered the PKK to be their property. Öcalan declared Karasungur a traitor. He wrote in 1993:

“He forged conspiracies: The friends in Eastern Kurdistan (Iran) were under the control of Mehmet Karasungur and Hamit Avci. Until 1982 they blocked every (progress) step of our friends. [...] I fought a great battle against these forces. "

- Abdullah ÖCALAN: PKK'ye dayatılan tasfiyecilik ve Tasfiyeciliğin Tasfiyesi, translation from Selim Cürükkaya: PKK - The dictatorship of Abdullah Öcalan. Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 226

According to the PKK, Karasungur fell in armed conflict between the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan . Baki Karer, also a member of the Central Committee of the PKK, wrote in 1986 after his escape from a PKK prison in the Lolan camp that Karasungur had resigned from all offices before his death because of differences with Öcalan. In contrast, Karasungur is venerated as a martyr in the PKK.

Karasungur was married and had one child. His brother Haydar Karasungur was also a member of the PKK. Öcalan removed him from all offices in 1986. He died of self-immolation in 1987 when he was surrounded by Turkish soldiers.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yeni Özgür Politika, November 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Abdullah Ocalan: PKK'ye dayatılan tasfiyecilik ve Tasfiyeciliğin Tasfiyesi. Cologne 1993, page 365.
  3. ↑ Selim Cürükkaya: PKK - The dictatorship of Abdullah Öcalan. Frankfurt am Main 1997, p. 226

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personal data
SURNAME Karasungur, Mehmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kurdish leadership and founding member as well as alleged dissident of the PKK
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sütlüce, Bingöl
DATE OF DEATH May 2nd 1983
Place of death Iraq