Everybody knows that the ordeal endured during the successful confrontation of the apartheid regime was an accomplishment of not only the South African people, but at the same time of the leader, in whom they had unstintingly confided their fate. No matter their numbers, the many ludicrous comments made on Mandela's credibility come from the quarters which adopt a remote and trivial approach to the "struggle of the oppressed' rather than making a close and reasonable analysis.
The self-organization processes of the communities subjected to suppression and discrimination would differ from the common practices, especially when they begin to make a true analysis of the notion of capitalist modernity. Traditionally, the organizational options of "the book' are already known. But time precedes forward and circumstances change, in company with historical determinism. Changing conditions will bring about changes in the behaviour and attitude of individuals and organizations, either captive or free. When it comes to the PKK, instead of bringing about pragmatic progress, these changes have led to the political and ethical progress of a movement, which has transformed itself on the basis of the struggle for democratic modernity and the developing direct democracy examples in the world.
The 12 September 1980 fascist coup followed by many organized coups against our community as well as the international conspiracy act against me and our movement share one thing in common with other interferences in other struggles of the oppressed; and that is the silence of the international community in the face of these interventions. Despite the progress of international democratic standards in the 21st century, due to the state propaganda characteristic of the international conspiracy, the dehumanization of the struggling leaders held captive still continues, based on poor intellectual standards.
How odd it is that a credible newspaper in Britain has not noticed the recent democratization progress that we have made in Mesopotamia. As far as the approach is concerned, I hope it is nothing more than "odd'. However, looking at the general approach of the article, what I see is not only the "oddness"; rather, every line is a dead giveaway of a hierarchic and "from above' viewpoint.
Here, those opposing peace are accusing us of starting negotiations, dehumanizing me in the eyes of the new generations and also defaming our movement, which has adopted peace and settlement as its main principle. They are running an organized activity to blacken the reputation of our efforts for democratic modernity. How odd it is that racist notions and old propaganda rhetoric, which have even lost their reputation in Turkey, are still being repeatedly covered in the international press.
The only topic to be discussed after Mandela's demise should be the apartheid, a regime which history would remember only with shame. Nobody would keep a memoir of apartheid and its leaders; nobody would shed tears for it; whereas Mandela has become a shining star for the peoples of Africa. Our historical mission is to ensure the ever brilliance of this star for the peoples of the Middle East. The friendship developed on the basis of principled and political integrity between the peoples' movements and particularly our movement, relies on the changing dynamics and the horizontal nature of their policies. To believe that these laws of goodwill and friendship have been developed on the basis of fear can only be explained by complete ignorance of the metamorphosis eras the Kurdish political movement has undergone and failure to observe its democratic inner reflections of the peaceful and negotiating perspective of this movement.
Likewise, negotiation and struggle are both important processes in determining the future of peoples' movements and those leading these processes are figures winning the confidence of the peoples, not "feared' ones. If not so, it wouldn't be possible for these movements to be represented both in the parliamentary system and the local politics, as it wouldn't have been possible to succeed in the years-long armed struggle.
My recommendation to the editorial board of The Guardian is to do more research and analysis on the role of the women in our political movement and the resulting transformative effects. Then, they would certainly encounter such an infinite experience so as to take off their colonialist hat, though ashamedly.
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