Page 319 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

Superstitions ingrained in society can only be abolished by com-
pletely understanding the real Islam as described in the Qur'an. To be
able to succeed doing this, an education system that explains the con-
cepts of the superiority of women, democracy, justice, and peace with
the verses of the Qur'an should be developed in the Southeast. The

facts that true Islam encourages values such as art, music, science and
describes the most perfect form of democracy, denounces ethnocen-
tric or racist attitudes and holds women in high esteem, the like of
which they've never experienced in any other society, should be
demonstrated. The youth who are given this education will be able to
build an order based on respect and the Qur'an by keeping their own
ties with their tribes and families and also upholding their faith with

strength. Establishing this will be very easy for our new generation
Kurdish youth so long as our state organizes the form of education in
this sense.

Such an education would be a major blow to the PKK while
ruling out the inequalities that push some of the youngsters in
the Southeastern Turkey towards the PKK. With the educa-
tion they will be given, religious youth would not only be
equipped to counter the distorted ideology of the PKK but they
would also never turn towards the PKK. Such an ideological
background, as we will see the details soon, would be suffi-

cient to render the PKK completely ineffective in such a way
that they would not be able to hurt our people any more.

An education system
emphasizing the
concepts of superiority
of women, democracy,
justice, arts, science,
and peace based on the
verses of the Qur'an is
needed in the Southeast
of Turkey. It is important
to introduce the true
Islam as described in
the Qur'an in upbringing
the new Kurdish youth. 317