Page 102 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

The bodies of the majority of Kurdish women are dead, rotten,
cold and very graceless. Their physical form is a little bit like this,
their souls are dull. They lack intellectuality… They are unable
to repeat words not even as much as a parrot does. 25

However, as we have already seen, the 1990s were a time of splits

within the organization, when it was weakened and shrank in size and
suffered severe losses. This important cause of a change in tactics also
meant that the PKK needed to introduce a change on the subject of
women. The organization issued a sudden declaration, and women
began being admitted. In 1996, at a time when the organization had
been shrinking and losing popular support, it first used women in sui-
cide attacks. 26

The basic reason why the organization, which was
staring defeat in the face, started admitting women was
to use them as female fighters to encourage male ter-

rorists. With the female fighters it brought into the fore-
front since that time, the PKK has opened the way to a
form of rivalry, and male fighters on the point of aban-
doning their links to the organization have been
encouraged to stay.

The real aim behind the admission of
women to the terror organization is
for women to be used for the pur-
pose of encouraging the male terror-
ists in the PKK, which was facing the
threat of complete annihilation.
Women were used in suicide attacks
solely in order to encourage the men.

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