
Prison Writings Volume II
The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century

Second volume of writings on the Kurds from Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).
Abdullah Ocalan was the leader of the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). He was eventually kidnapped while in Kenya in 1999, and has been in prison in Turkey ever since. Ocalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping. From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the southeast of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, tens of thousands of PKK guerrillas took on the second largest army in NATO. The book begins with Preliminary Notes by Cemil Bayik, military commander of the PKK.
Abdullah Ocalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on 15th February 1999. He is a leading strategist and the most important political representative of the Kurdish freedom movement. Under isolation conditions at Imrali Island Prison, Ocalan authored more than 10 books which revolutionised Kurdish politics, including The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (Pluto, 2017), and Prison Writings, Volumes I and II (Pluto, 2007; 2011).
Part One: The Kurds in the wider Middle Eastern context: Who we are and what we want
Introduction
1. Some basic terms
2. Shortcomings of the predominant approaches to the Kurdish issue
3. The historical framework
4. Ethnic, national and democratic movements of the Kurds
5. Towards a solution of the Kurdish conflict
Part 2: Fighting For a People under International Siege
Introduction
6. History as an Account of Conspiracy and Treason - Lessons to be learned
7. Counter-Insurgency Warfare against the PKK
8. In Fear of Freedom
9. The Background of My Abduction From Kenya
Appendix
The European Legal Institutions and the Solution to the Kurdish Question
Last Word
The Editorial Team
About Us:
The International Initiative 'Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan – Peace in Kurdistan'
About the author
Abstract of the book
200 pages
135mm x 215mm