'Only those who bear the responsibility for war can assume the responsibility for peace' – Abdullah Öcalan
For decades, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has fought against the Turkish state. Now, the possibility for peace seems closer than ever. In his first major work in over a decade, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader and architect of the peace process, presents a roadmap for reconstructing society based on communalism, eco-industry, and radical democracy.
Written from the prison island of Imrali, this is Öcalan's political philosophy, manifesto, and strategic intervention in Turkey's ongoing peace process. He includes rich interventions on the nature of Kurdish existence, their relationship to freedom, the dissolution of the PKK, and the future society they will continue to build.
Direct and profoundly hopeful, this manifesto offers a conceptual bridge from decades of conflict toward a future of democratic confederalism.
