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LeftInTX

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5. They're still comparing PKK to ASALA....
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 10:57 PM
Oct 2019

Geez....

From 2017


https://avim.org.tr/en/Yorum/RELATIONS-BETWEEN-THE-PKK-AND-ASALA

The relationship between the Turkish left on one hand, and Armenian and Kurdish nationalists on the other is not new. The political line of Bakırcıyan’s organization TİKKO is notable for its opposition to Kemalism and the Turkish nation building project. TİKKO’s founder İbrahim Kaypakkaya was one of the first leftist leaders to categorize Kemalism as ‘fascism’ and to introduce the Armenian issue into political discourse.[3] The foundations laid by Kaypakkaya still shape much of the Turkish left’s views on the Armenian issue.

This article argues that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) emerged as an integral part of the Turkish left and its views on the Armenian issue have been shaped in accordance with the ideological current developed by Kaypakkaya.[4] Resultantly, the PKK’s cooperation with Armenian terrorists was not strictly based on tactical necessity.

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