Selahattin Çelik

Selahattin Çelik (* 1957 in Turkey ) is a Turkish-Kurdish writer and journalist living in Germany . The temporarily member of the Central Committee of the PKK is now one of the spokespersons for the Kurdish “National Democratic Initiative”.

Life

In the 1970s / 80s, the journalist Çelik still worked for various PKK- related media such as Özgür Gündem, Özgür Politika or the television station MED-TV, albeit with the attitude of the critical intellectual. These collaborations broke off after he left the PKK and emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1982. From Germany, Çelik continued to work as a journalist.

In 1999 Çelik was beaten up by four young people in his Cologne apartment and seriously injured. Many Kurdish organizations in Germany, in particular the European organization of the PKK front organization ERNK , condemned this attack, which was brought into connection with Çelik's criticism of the PKK, and distanced themselves from it.

Çelik's book Moving the Mountain Ararat (2004/2007) about “the political, military, economic and social dimensions of the current Kurdish uprising” was published by Zambon Verlag in Frankfurt in both Turkish and German. His criminal state appeared as early as 1998 : the " Susurluk incident " and the interweaving of state, underworld and counter-guerrilla in Turkey in German. In 1999 the Mezopotamien Verlag published Çelik's book Turkish Counter-Guerrilla: The Death Machine .

Web links

• “One thing is clear, the armed struggle of the Kurds is over” - Interview with the Kurdish author Selahattin Çelik, 1999