Kurdistan Socialist Party
The Socialist Party of Kurdistan - Turkey (PSK-T) ( Kurmancî : Partiya Sosyalîst a Kurdistan ) was founded on December 31, 1974 by Kemal Burkay and six companions in Ankara.
history
The party emerged from an association of Kurdish intellectuals in Northern Kurdistan ( Turkey ) who called themselves Devrimci Doğu Kültür Ocakları (Revolutionary Cultural Centers of the East) since 1965 , and Devrimci Halk Kültür Derneği (Revolutionary Cultural Association of the People) since 1976 . They set themselves the goal of informing the Turkish public about the social conditions and the military repression in the Turkish Kurdish regions and establishing solidarity with the Kurds. On the other hand, they wanted to inform the citizens of the Kurdish regions about their political rights and promote the Kurdish culture and language . For this purpose, since 1975 they have published the bilingual magazine "Weg der Freiheit" (Kurmandschi: Riya Azadî , Turkish: Özgürlük Yolu ). They managed to reach workers and students, but not the largely illiterate Kurdish rural population. Their political orientation was pro-Soviet .
From 1980 onwards, as a result of the Kenan Evrens coup, many Kurds fled to Europe, from where the magazine, now exclusively in Kurdish, continued to be published. Its chairman was Kemal Burkay until 2003 .
program
Its goal is to solve the Kurdish conflict through a comprehensive democratization of Turkey, supplemented by social change in a socialist direction. She calls for joint action by Turks and Kurds against the conservative military and large landowners as well as for increasing international pressure on the Turkish government to end the human rights violations in the Kurdish regions. It rejects the path of armed struggle that the PKK has embarked on and its claim to be the “avant-garde of the Kurdish people”. This led to sharp disputes between the two organizations. Nevertheless, in 1993 its then chairman Kemal Burkay and Abdullah Öcalan presented a joint nine-point plan for peace in Northern Kurdistan, the aim of which was to end the state of emergency, an amnesty, the abolition of the village protection system and the return of the displaced refugees to their hometowns . The Turkish government rejected the plan.
Based on the Kurdish people's right to self-determination, which they do not see as a minority in a state but as an independent nation, the PSK advocates a federal solution to the Turkish Kurdish conflict. It demands that the Kurdish regions of Turkey have their own parliament, legitimized by regional elections, a regional administration, their own police force and native language school lessons. Taxes from the autonomous areas should only be left to half of the central government in Ankara, which will continue to be allowed to represent the Kurdish areas in foreign policy and military matters.
swell
- Gerard Chaliand (ed.): Kurdistan and the Kurds, Vol. 1, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-922-197-24-8 (pp. 161–163)
- Îsmet Şerîf Wanlî : Kurdistan and the Kurds, Vol. 2, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3922-197-17-5 (pp. 64–74)
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael M. Gunter, Historical Dictionary of the Kurds, p. 118 ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
