On the basis of the developments in international area, the region and Kurdistan, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) has determined its political direction for the new period at its annual Council meeting which was attended by 29 permanent members and lasted for a week. PKK decided that “it became a historical duty to respond with an enlarged resistance to the AKP fascism”.

In a statement made after the meeting on PKK’s own site (http://www.pkkonline.com/), it was remarked that the meeting “was brought to a successful conclusion with multi-perspective and intense discussions”.

The Council meeting was held while significant developments are happening in the Middle East, there is a deepening chaos of the capitalist modernity, intense attacks and operations of the AKP-led Turkish state’s fascism against the Kurdish people and their freedom struggle and intense isolation and psychological torture on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.

The statement remarked that the significant decisions made during the meeting were “important steps have been defined in line with Öcalan in terms of responding to colonialism and winning the future”.

The statement emphasized that the discussions during the meeting resulted in reaching the determination and deepness of successfully performing the unfilled duties of the last year.  

The statement ended underlining that “Our movement needs to approach the process with a principled and a broad perspective when it comes to meet all possible developments to be lived in the reality of the Middle East.”