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In addition to all this, the people who are called "KCK citizens"
are obliged to follow articles 31-33 of the contract, which gives KCK
citizens "the duty of necessary defense": "Everyone is obliged to be
prepared for necessary defense and support necessary defense
efforts… If all peaceful efforts fail, guerilla wars based on self-
defense and riots will be the course of action…" In other words, peo-
ple are first forced to be KCK citizens and then compelled to partici-

pate in the guerilla wars of the PKK, all under the pretense of neces-
sary defense.

4. Efforts to legitimize terror

In the Articles 4 and 9/a of the KCK Contract, it is claimed that

"Kurdistan is subjected to an imperialist colonial system." With this
phrase, they are referring to Southeastern Anatolia and the Republic

Revenge
YDG-H

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