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the media of the so-called "appointed PKK" officials threatening offi-
cial district officers of the Republic of Turkey, and questions to the
government have been raised in Parliament. 79
The KCK's army is known by the name of "security units" (YDG-
H). These units perform tasks such as collecting taxes in the name of
the PKK, forcing businesses to shut up shops as a form of protest,
inflicting punishments and pressuring voters and polling stations.
These units are used to ensure that fear of the PKK is maintained in
the cities and to maintain the threat of violence against citizens. Even
while the co-called Solution Process was still continuing, citizens in
Diyarbakır were still being forced to pay taxes as "members of the
KCK state." 80
According to the indictment drawn up by the Prosecutor's Office,
Öcalan's decision to establish a PKK substructure known as the KCK
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on May 17 , 2005, was inspired by the idea of a suprastate confeder-
ated model proposed by the communist/anarchist writer Murray
Bookchin. The plan consisted of three stages; a free leadership, demo-
cratic autonomy and democratic confederalism. The first aim is thus
the release of Öcalan. Looking at the veiled and immoral propositions
that are becoming increasingly frequent on this subject in Turkey,
work is obviously underway to realize this first step of the plan. The
next step once this has been achieved is democratic autonomy, fol-
lowed by the establishment of a four-part confederated state made up
of parts of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. As can be seen from the term
"Establishing a Democratic Socialist Middle East Confederation" in
Article 4 of the text, the objective consists not only of the Kurdish
regions, but includes the whole of the Middle East. And that goes to
show that the basic aim of the PKK is to create a communist order in
all the Middle East, Turkey included.
The KCK is in fact a political employment tool personally invent-
ed by Öcalan so that members of the PKK released from prison as of
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