Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK) Executive Committee has stated that the 40th year of the official founding of the PKK has started and that the patriotic Kurdish people and their allies everywhere are celebrating 39 years with enthusiasm.

The PKK said, “First, we salute these celebrations and our party entering its 40th year. We celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the PKK, which is celebrated by our people as the national resurgence day, for Leader Abdullah Öcalan and all party comrades, our patriotic people and our allies. We commemorate with respect, love and gratitude all our heroic martyrs from our Foundation Martyr Comrade Haki Karer to our 40th year martyr Comrade Delal Amed. We declare that the 40th year of the party will be a year of greater struggle and victory in the line of the Leader and the Martyrs.”

"PKK HAS CREATED A TURNING POINT FOR THE HISTORY OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE"

The full text of the PKK Executive Committee statement is as follows:

As it is known, the PKK was officially founded in the Fis village of Lice on November 27, 1978. Since its birth and foundation, the PKK has inherited a very negative historic legacy, and has stopped the destruction of the Kurdish people under the colonialist-genocidal system to launch the history of free existence under the lead of our party. On this basis, a turning point has been created for the history of the Kurdish people. In the 39 years of heroic struggle, the PKK has created the leadership of the party and the guerrilla’s resistance, implemented the national resurgence revolution, launched the women’s liberation revolution, led the struggle against fascism and the international plot, developed the democratic nation building in Kurdistan, reanimated the Kurdish people on the basis of a free life and has placed the Kurdish people among the free nations.

"A FIRST IN THE HISTORY OF KURDISTAN"

For this, our people see the PKK as their own free identity and say “PKK is the people, the people are here” in the streets and squares they fill. Leader Abdullah Öcalan says the PKK is a party of martyrs. It is known that the PKK is a position here Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas are translated into organization and action. As a movement of the Leader and the Martyrs, our party is the proprietor of forty years of an unabated and epic revolutionary march. The unbroken march for freedom carried out by Leader Abdullah Öcalan has continued for 45 years. This unbroken march of the Leader for 45 years and the 40 year-long unabated march of the party are a first in the history of Kurdistan. It is rarely seen in human history. Undoubtedly, this heroic march has created a great historic accumulation and gains.

Such a march of the Leader and party struggle that have reached almost half a century have clearly created a great enlightenment for Kurdistan, the Middle East and humanity. They have shed light on all the issues throughout the region and the world, starting with the Kurdish issue and the women’s issue. On this basis, they have shown the way to salvation for all the oppressed and created a great salvation movement. The founding of the PKK is a turning point for Kurdistan and the Kurdish people, and its revolutionary struggle in a sacrificial line for 39 years has made historic contributions to the struggle for freedom and democracy of the oppressed. As a revolutionary movement that transforms and renews itself constantly, the PKK has had very important contributions in surpassing crude materialism and the dogmatic dialectic, liberating socialism and democracy from the hegemony of the state and the power, approaching the women’s issue as a freedom revolution that forms the basis of all freedom, implementing freedom and equality which had been considered utopias for the future in the current time, proving that self-strength and the power of the people is invincible and creating a courage and giving at a sacrificial level.

The PKK has been born and developed in Northern Kurdistan, and has spread into all four parts of Kurdistan and throughout the world in the 39 years of struggle. It has managed to defeat dozens of Turkish governments, the September 12 fascist military coup, the 1987 State of Emergency, the total fascist special war system, the international plot attacks, through the Kobanê and Shengal resistances ISIS fascism, and the AKP-MHP fascism through the self-government resistances led by Cizre and Sur. Now on the 40th year, the PKK has the duty to throw the AKP-MHP fascism on the brink of collapse to the trash heap of history. However vile the attacks carried out by the Erdoğan-Bahçeli fascist dictatorship may be, however many massacres they commit, however much they lie and cheat, their end is near. Nothing can save the AKP-MHP fascism from falling. The fascist dictatorship that has shrunk both inside and outside of the country will certainly be felled by our party’s 40th year of struggle.

"WHAT WAS DONE IN 39 YEARS MIRRORS WHAT WILL BE DONE IN THE 40TH"

What the PKK has done in 39 years mirrors what it will do in the 40th. As Leader Abdullah Öcalan says, whatever has been done up to now has been essentially a preparation. The PKK’s main great struggle and victory will come after this. In the line of free Kurdistan and the Democratic Middle East, the PKK will certainly play its role. In the 40th year of the party, the struggle for a free Kurdistan, free Leader and free women and a democratic society will be continued in the line of victory. The democratic modernity revolution based on societal ecology and women’s freedom will certainly prevail.

"PKK IS A MOVEMENT TO HOLD TO ACCOUNT AND AVENGE"

It should not be forgotten that the PKK is a historic movement for holding to account and revolutionary vengeance. The vengeance struggle of our first great martyr Haki Karer has turned the PKK into a party, the vengeance struggle of Mahsum Korkmaz has created the guerrilla army, the vengeance struggle of Berivan, Beritan and Zilan has developed the women’s freedom revolution, the vengeance struggle of serhildan (uprising) martyrs has created the national resurgence revolution and the democratic nation, and the struggle against the international plot has been developed in an utter revolutionary vengeance spirit. The 40th year of the party now starts with the spirit of vengeance of Sara, Nalin, Azat, Baran and Delal. The vengeance struggle of Sara and Delal will end the AKP-MHP fascism and will certainly take the Kurdistan freedom revolution to victory.

"THE BESTA MARTYRS WILL BE AVENGED"

On this basis, we salute the 40th year of struggle for the PKK and state that as the party and guerrilla leadership we will develop the struggle for Free Leader and Free Kurdistan further in the line of victory and in a much stronger fashion in the 40th year. We are calling on women and the youth and all our people and allies to participate stronger in the 40th year of the struggle and to undoubtedly prevail. We declare the 40th year of the party to be the year for the vengeance of Delal Amed and the Besta martyrs. On this basis, we are calling on women and the youth, and young women in particular, to join the ranks of the party and the guerrilla in the line of Delal Amed and avenge all our martyrs!