The PKK is Pro-American
Turkish Hurriyet daily Newspaper
June 25, 2007
"The PKK has steered away from Marxist ideology, and has now become heavily
pro-American", representatives from the PKK-affiliated Democratic Solution Party
told an American magazine. The article claimed that support for the PKK had
grown in the region over recent tensions between northern Iraq (Southern
Kurdistan) and Turkey.
Recent developments regarding the Democratic Solutions Party founded by the PKK
and its side organisation, PJAK - were reported in the Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs.
While representatives of the Democratic Solution Party (DSP) denied being a
cloak of the PKK, which the USA, the EU and Turkey have accepted as a terrorist
organisation, they stated, "We share the same ideology." DSP President, Dr.
Fayık Muhammed Golpi, told the magazine, "We were a Marxist organisation.
Following the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics we
re-evaluated Marxism. Abdullah Öcalan wrote a book about this. We cannot ignore
the realities of the period of globalization. We have chosen democracy and
federalism. This is not a tactical move."
