Page 257 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

Indeed, in one of his books, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the
terrorist organization, writes the following words: "…it is clear that we
cannot overcome the problems only by working to destroy the state. In fact,
in the Soviet experience, when the communists overthrew Czarism and built
their own regime of dictatorship, the results proved to be utterly lesson-wor-
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thy." Clearly, Öcalan and the KCK structure that he runs aim to com-
pletely destroy the state and replace it with a new state based on the

communist ideology.

Due to their
dominance over the
region, masked
militants of the YDG-H
can freely move
around Turkish
streets with their
weapons.

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