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of the revolution and freedom, for their country's sake, were orga-
nized for the interests of Öcalan's system but in the name of
"liberty".

People speak of Öcalan being on the side of women. I would like
to clarify that: Apart from a few gestures required as the pres-
tige of being the Leader, it is not possible to speak of Öcalan gen-
erally favoring women. But there is an even worse and unjust

system concealed behind this. What Öcalan actually established
was an elite female group that could act as his mouthpiece and
reinforce his own control through women. 34

The punishment and execution of women engaging in criticism
inside the organization, or wishing to leave it, is a fact that summa-

rizes the reality of women in the PKK. The most important example of
this was the execution, at Öcalan's command, of the female militant
code-named Semir who sent her criticisms of internal organization
within the party to Öcalan himself. According to Necati Alkan, through
the execution of Semir, Öcalan neutralized the first direct revolt against
his authority and issued a challenge to future potential opposition
movements in the person of Semir. Semir was not the only example.
Saime Aşkın, who supported Semir during the dispute, was also killed.
This policy is still in force today, and those who criticize Öcalan's prac-

tices are identified as those who carry the "personality of Semir" and
are subjected to similar punishments and executions. The reality of
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the terrible executions within the PKK will be described in detail in due
course.

It is of course no surprise that, despite all the deceptive talk about
women, female members of the PKK have realized that they were in
fact "only there to be used". Women have always been regarded as val-
ueless entities in communist systems. Moreover, there is no question
of any value being attached to women in the communal system believed
to have existed once, but which in reality never did. Under the desired

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