NEWS CENTER – The Coordination of Youth Organizations (Komalên Ciwan) announced in a statement to the public that the 1st PKK Youth Conference was held with the slogan “Let’s renew ourselves with the spirit of Apoist and win in the fight for freedom”.
In the statement, it was said, “We, as the Apoist Youth Movement, are announcing the first PKK Youth Conference with great enthusiasm and pride.” He fought heroically in Zap and was martyred. In the statement, it was stated that the level of struggle of the youth movement, duties and responsibilities, the reality of Apoist’s line and the level of implementation of Rêber Apo’s line were evaluated with a main and special agenda. In the statement about the 9-day conference, it was said, “We believe that our conference clarifies the perspective of time, initiates change and innovation in each of our friends, and paves the way to success until the end. We will keep our promise What we have given to Leader APO, the martyrs of the revolution and our people, and we will achieve success.”
The statement is as follows:
As the Apoist Youth Movement, we announce the first PKK Youth Conference with great joy and pride. Our conference continued for 9 days with the participation of 40 delegates from all over Kurdistan and abroad. Our conference went on with very important discussions, meaningful and productive evaluations and conclusions, it reached the level of historical determination and was concluded successfully. In this way, we congratulate Leader Apo, the martyrs of the cause of freedom, all the revolutionary youth of Kurdistan, our patriotic people and all our friends. This conference will definitely become the home of history and be a source of success in the path of Kurdistan’s freedom revolution.
Of course, the ones who allowed this opportunity to create the conference are our martyrs. Our conference was created thanks to the blood of those heroes. Our struggle and resistance continues under the flag raised by the martyrs, it grows and becomes an unbreakable truth. Our martyrs light our way and destroy the darkness of fascism with their heavy swords. We will never forget this fact and we will never forget it. On this basis in the person of Sh. Baran Mawa, Ş. Mahir Botan, Ş. Axin Mahir Dicle, Ş. Hossein Firat, Ş. Bawer Fire, Ş. Firat Çiçek, Sh. Viyan Serhed, Ş. Akif Yilmaz, Sh. Evin said, Sh. Raperin Amed, Ş. Sara, Sh. Ruken also remembers all the martyrs in the person of Zap, Avashin and Metina with great respect, bowing to their memory and once again renewing the promise we made to them. Also, we have this conference from Sh. Rizgar Karasungur, who fought against the enemy with great courage and joined the ranks of the martyrs’ caravan during the resistance of Zap, is a gift.
As the Apoist Youth Movement, we are leading the cause of the freedom of our people. In the last 8 years, a great war and incredible resistance was experienced in this region. Every year, every day and every moment of this time was extraordinary. The fascist, occupying and genocidal Turkish state has carried out a total elimination concept called the ‘Zhongdanin plan’ . By liquidating our freedom movement, the PKK, they wanted to save the Kurdish people from genocide. This concept was put into effect against Leader Apo in Imraliye. They imposed an absolute isolation and a system of psychological torture more than ever. Gradually, this widespread attack was carried out throughout Kurdistan. In this end, the fascist enemy mobilized all its political, economic, military and diplomatic opportunities and power. Also, Kurdistan’s collaborators and traitors were made an essential part of this concept. No matter how dirty, barbaric and unethical methods are, everyone has tried them. They waged a special and psychological war 24 hours a day on our people, women and youth. Against the Kurdistan freedom guerillas, all kinds of prohibited nuclear tactics and chemical gases are used on a daily basis. As a result, they aimed to silence the APO leader, eliminate the guerrillas, make the people surrender and turn the youth into enemies of their cause. They calculated that this concept of liquidation would be the top until 2023 and thus reach the borders of Mısak-ı Milli in the century of Lausanne and declare their hegemony in the Middle East.
But this account of theirs, like many times in the history of the struggle of the last 50 years, turned out to be wrong and was dismissed. First of all, Leader APO turned Imraliye into a fortress of resistance and stood against these attacks like a formidable army. Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas wrote epics of heroism with a dedication that has no example in history and developed a unique revolutionary war. On this basis, women, young people and our patriotic people stood up for their honor, raised a will of steel and tore the cloak of surrender. In other words, against the artillery attacks, artillery developed resistance with all its difficulty and brought the fascist and genocidal regime to the stage of destruction. Once again, the leader of the APO and the PKK confirmed his failure. After these last 8 years full of struggle and resistance with these historical agendas, the opportunity to organize this kind of conference was very meaningful for us.
Our conference took place as a result of the war, struggle and practice of the last 8 years. As a result of such a practice, as well as the struggle and resistance that the fascist regime of Erdoğan-Bahçeli brought to destruction, in this conference we tried to review the situation of our struggle in all parts of Kurdistan and abroad. We have aimed to correct the shortcomings, defects and mistakes that have been experienced in the past with a critique , to develop a fundamental change and a fundamental transformation, according to the spirit of the times. The motto of our conference is “RENEW YOURSELF WITH THE APOIST SPIRIT, WIN THE FREEDOM WAR!” is her address. In this way, the entire contents, discussions, evaluations, proposals and decisions of the conference were handled and developed. Although these tasks of the conference were vital and difficult, we can safely say that they were successfully completed. In the end, each friend raised their positions of success with deep criticism and endless determination. Once again, we used the faith and spirit that is the key to success for ourselves. Based on the results of the conference, we will renew ourselves permanently and fulfill the duties of the revolution everywhere and at all times.
Our conference assessed the level of struggle of the youth movement, our duties and responsibilities and the level of implementation of the Apoist line against the truth and the line of Leader Apo with a main and special agenda and reached important results. As Apoist youth, we should really study our leadership in every way, from every angle, study it and learn everything from Leader Apo. In all our problems and issues of life, struggle and revolution, Leader APO becomes the solution guide. From understanding the enemy to the right style and method of the creator, social worker and fighter, from the gender and class struggle to the formation of the personality of the militants, from self-knowledge and self-improvement to continuous self-renewal, Leader APO is an example and proof of it. Leader Apo broke the walls of İmrali despite an absolute and severe isolation, crossed and brought his paradigm to the freedom-loving humanity. This fact has been highlighted once again in the clearest way by the rebellion of ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ in Eastern Kurdistan and the whole of Iran. Leader Apo says, “Wherever my defenses are, I am there.” With this point of view, Leader Apo wanted to correct our wrong attitudes, i.e. to criticize, and to point out the greatest source of strength. In Imrali, in the most difficult, hard and difficult conditions, in a cell of one person, without opportunities and opportunities, in absolute isolation, Leader APO developed the idea and philosophy of free life, the paradigm of the struggle for socialism on the basis of a democratic society, changed the nature and nature of women’s ecological and emancipation and built the perspective of Democratic Modernity. With this change, Leader Apo overturned the dogmas of thousands of years in a wonderful way, with an intelligence that left people surprised and gave a new light to the hopes of the oppressed people.
Based on these principles, our conference explained the wrong, weak and low approaches to the truth of Leader APO. In this context, against the truth of Leader APO, emotional, superficial, far from ideological, formal and sloganeering approaches and touches were condemned. As young people, we are the sacrifices of Leader APO, this is true, but the meaning of this must be understood deeply and correctly. If the young people of this time take care of themselves in this way, internalize and implement Leader APO’s ideas in every moment of their lives, then a free future will be possible for the Kurdish people and humanity. Based on these principles, the statement that “Imralı is the center of the war” should be understood very well. Leader APO today is fear and dread in the heart of the hegemonic capitalist forces. That’s why they made a conspiracy 25 years ago, that’s why they tried to isolate the leader of APO in Imrali. Leader APO is everything to us and on this basis, our most important duty and responsibility is to destroy the Imrali system and realize the physical freedom of Leader APO. For this goal, all our strength should be mobilized and all forms of activities should be developed.
Based on these evaluations and findings, we discussed in detail the social problems of the youth, the ways and means of solving these problems, as well as the reality of the capitalist modernity system and our fascist enemy and the necessity of our struggle against it.
The system of capitalist modernity is a system that is hostile to humanity. No movement in human history has been as brutal, immoral and cruel as capitalist modernity. No system has been able to develop such deep slavery as during the rule of capitalist modernity. Life has been betrayed in the system of capitalist modernity. People’s feelings and thoughts have been poisoned, women have experienced a terrible fall, young people have entered into an opposing position with their character, society has been divided under the moans. The summary of this system for 500 years is this: A plague that destroys, destroys and destroys all humanity and nature. The cause of crises and crises, pain and suffering, hunger, division and unrest in the Middle East is the system of capitalist modernity and its leading imperialist forces. Related to this, the main reason for the division of Kurdistan and the policy of genocide against the Kurdish people is this system. As much as the capitalist modernity system is the enemy of humanity, it is also the enemy of the Kurds. The biggest obstacle to Kurdish peace and freedom are Kurdish capitalist forces.
Capitalist modernity attacks the youth the most. In order to disorganize and divide the society, it targets the youth who are the backbone of the society. This system wants to create a generation of young people who do not question, who have removed their search for life, who live without conflicts and without goals. His dynamism, innovation, inquiry, radicalism and potential for change that can shake the world from its place, want to serve the system. For this 24-hour bombardment of special war that destroys and degenerates natural socialization is applied to the youth. The definition of “online youth” is the most basic expression of these attacks. In the era of modern technological development, not only the character of war has changed, but also the way of social life has been completely removed from its nature. People’s deviation from their truth is irrevocably targeted, and for this they gradually turn all areas of life into an endless simulation.
Capitalism exercises its hegemony through its ideology of Liberalism and the liberal way of life. He says: ” The dearer you are, the more individual you are, the closer freedom is!” ” In this system, everything is reversed in this way. Error has been placed in the place of truth, evil in the place of goodness, hypocrisy in the place of beauty, lies in the place of truth, and slavery in the place of freedom. Our conference was a source of deep knowledge about the characteristics and lifestyle of the petty bourgeois class. The main obstacle to our revolution is the position of the petty bourgeois class. Therefore, our conference decided to treat the characteristics and culture of the small bourgeoisie as the biggest enemy and to fight hard against it.
In contrast to the capitalist modernity and its anti-social policies, communal life should be developed everywhere. Let’s strengthen social solidarity, respect for humanity, collective work style and true friendship at any time and place, introduce its beauty, feel it and implement it in our lives.
Our conference, as a measure of overcoming the obligations of the time and building a free life, also deepened itself in the struggle for women’s freedom and reached free women and free men. For this, the ideological struggle, the gender struggle should be strengthened everywhere and carried out continuously. In this matter, the Youth Movement has the duty and responsibility of leading along with the women’s movement. If a free life, a free consciousness, a free society is to be built, this must be developed in the personality of the youth generations. Young people are the ones who should discuss, research, know themselves and fight against them without hesitation. The one who should have clear standards of rejection and acceptance in this matter are the youth who call themselves Apoist and revolutionaries. On this basis, the first duty is to respond violently to all the enemy’s dirty policies and attacks on young women.
In the framework of the conference discussions, the situation of the struggle areas in Kurdistan was also discussed in detail. The fascist AKP-MHP regime in North Kurdistan and Turkey is running a policy that is even worse than the September 12 coup on the youth. They target organized youth groups by applying all kinds of fascist pressures to make them ineffective, passive, and create an apolitical youth that only follows the threat of individual life. They want to dominate a fear mentality so that even two people cannot come to each other. Complete fascist terror on the youth from the universities to the neighborhoods. For those who have raised their heads, prisons are shown as a forest. Prisons are filled with thousands of young people of this type. The application of agency against young people through physical and psychological torture is done in the most despicable way. Basically, it wants to create a youth that cannot fight, act, oppressed and disillusioned. In this context, there is a need for the strongest patriotic organizational structure in North Kurdistan. Our conference showed that the youth of the North and Turkey should reorganize themselves against fascism with new and creative tactics and methods, and build a struggle that fascism cannot impose its rule on. On this basis, young people can empty the policies of special war, realize their natural defense and lead the people and the struggle.
In the context of the genocide war concept, the fascist Turkish state, led by the international forces and the cooperation of the governments of Iraq and Syria, attacks Rojava, Şengal and Makhmur with all the means and methods of special and psychological warfare at the hands of gangs and traitors of the KDP. . They want to liquidate these areas that have been saved with struggle and expensive costs and are managed by Leader Apo’s paradigm, with the system of Democratic Autonomous Administrations. The greatest fear of the hegemonic powers of capitalist modernity, the ruling states and traitors; society and free spaces are where Leader Apo’s paradigm becomes vital. The basis of these attacks is based on this fear. In this context, the young people in the liberated areas need to take the lead in building a democratic national system and on this basis protect the achievements of the struggle along the lines of the Revolutionary People’s War.
In South Kurdistan, the establishment of the KDP administration of the non-governmental cooperation by the imperialist forces is in itself a historical concept of an ideological, political and military attack. PDK in Kurdistan is a model and a special project for the development of capitalist modernity and the line of cooperation. This comprador force, which has played with all the values of Kurds and Kurdistan, has been tasked to present the values of the people to the market of the invaders. They have made South Kurdistan a decision point for Turkish fascism and are attacking all the achievements of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement and the values of the Kurdistan people. In this context, it is necessary to stop in all parts of Kurdistan and strengthen the struggle against the treasonous line of the KDP, and the youth in the South of Kurdistan should use all methods of struggle against the occupation of the fascist Turkish state.
In Eastern Kurdistan and Iran, the uprising led by women and youth has historical, ideological, social and political significance. This rebellion, which started with the slogan “WOMEN’S LIFE FREEDOM”, resonated all over the world and mobilized not only women, but also men. At the same level as the youth riots of 1968, this riot today expresses a social-cultural revolution. The assessment of Rêber APO, “the 21st century will be the century of women” becomes vital today. In this context, young people in Eastern Kurdistan should organize their lives based on the ideas and philosophy of Leader APO and strengthen their organization of nature protection.
Based on all the evaluations and discussions or in our conference, some basic and strategic decisions have been made for the Apoist youth movement;
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Realizing the physical freedom of Rêber Apo, breaking isolation, putting him at the center of all his struggles, wars and activities and on this basis mobilizing in the spirit of Apoist youth at all times and everywhere.
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As a measure of connection and love for LEADER APO, from the Middle East to Latin America, from Africa to Asia, from Europe to Australia, the ideas, philosophy and paradigm of LEADER APO have been introduced and spread in all corners of the world. On this basis, with the organizations and youth movements against the system, struggle alliances were developed.
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The Apoist Youth Movement immediately overcame the current tense situation and developed military and strategic openings everywhere.
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On the basis of the historical tasks of the time, the organization definitely developed innovation in mentality, depth in thought, sophistication in style, and creativity in style.
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To carry out the most important task of the practical leadership of the Revolutionary People’s War strategy in all fields based on the perspective of “protect your home, your neighborhood, your country”, organizing and training activities were developed and prepared for any war situation.
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The work of the university was evaluated as the most strategic work and the measure of success, and according to that, they were mobilized everywhere for the work of universities.
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Considering the agitation and propaganda work as the most decisive ideological struggle, on that basis, the agitation and propaganda work was rebuilt, strengthened and given a strategic mission.
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In the construction of the democratic nation, especially in the construction of communes, councils, academies and cooperatives, they stood up according to their position, considered themselves responsible at the first level, developed the construction works with the role of leadership,
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The line of activities of the ApoistYouth Movement was based on massification, radicalization and influence, and they developed retaliatory actions against fascism in a united way.
The PKK youth conference had historical significance in any way. It may have been held for the first time, but the conference was based on Leader Apo’s 50-year march, the legacy and tradition of decades of youth movement struggle . They passed themselves by all means, followed the line of Leader APO, considered their practice according to the truth of Leader Apo and re-learned according to the criteria and rules of Apo and decided to be a great spiritual strength for all friends. built
This conference once again proved that the PKK as an Apoist movement is very big and this growth is due to its struggle. We have great shortcomings that we have not yet freed our leadership from the crucifixion system of Imrali, we have great shortcomings that we owe to our martyrs, to our people and to the beloved children of this country. However, despite all the fascist and genocidal enemies, despite all the barbaric attacks, the support of international imperialist states, as well as the presence of traitors and self-dealing collaborators, they could not destroy the truth of the PKK, could not remove the name of the PKK from history, nor could the glory of the PKK. will destroy Because we are an Apoist movement, because we are an army of sacrifices, because we are fighting for the freedom of all oppressed peoples and progressive humanity. Today, this fact has become stronger than ever, our will, consciousness and faith have become like a sharp sword.
The first process will really clarify our fate, the fate of our people and the general fate of the freedom struggle. Under the leadership of Leader Apo, our 50-year struggle against the 100-year fascist and bloodthirsty enemy will enter a final battle. In such an extraordinary and historical process, we as the Apoist Youth Movement enter the war with great preparation. Since then, our conference has played a very important role.
We believe that our conference clarified the perspective of time, initiated change and innovation in each friend and opened the way to victory until the end. As the Apoist Youth Movement, we are more self-confident, experienced, prepared and determined than ever. At the end of it, we will definitely live, work and win the war of freedom for success. We will keep our promise and give success to Leader APO, the martyrs of the revolution and our people. On this basis, we wish success for all patriotic, revolutionary and freedom-loving youths and call them to join this new process with the slogan “RENEW YOURSELF WITH THE APOIST SPIRIT, WIN THE WAR OF FREEDOM”
DEATH TO INVASION AND FASCISM
DEATH TO BETRAYAL AND NEIGHBORHOOD
LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE APOIST YOUTH
LONG LIVE THE KURDISTAN WORKERS’ PARTY
LONG LIVE RÊBER APO
PKK Youth Committee,
14.07.2023