Download or read book Prison Writings - The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century (International Initiative Edition) written by Abdullah Ocalan and published by TMP Distribution. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abdullah Ocalan was the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, and the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades. He was eventually kidnapped while in Kenya in 1999, and has been in prison in Turkey ever since. From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the south east of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, tens of thousands of PKK guerrillas took on the second largest army in NATO. The conflict has remained unsolved till today and the fighting still goes on. While in prison, Mr. Ocalan has written a number of books, in which he analyses the situation in Kurdistan and offers proposals for a peaceful solution to the conflict.