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Abdullah Öcalan (born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (Kurdish for "uncle") is a Kurdish political theorist. He is a founding member and leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (the PKK). Since 1999 he has been imprisoned on İmralı island on charges of treason against the Turkish state.

Ideological Beliefs
Before his imprisonment, the beliefs of Ocalan and the PKK were mainly based on classical Marxism. They also took inspiration from the many decolonization movements around the world during the Cold War. Central to their beliefs was the idea that Kurdistan was an internal colony of Turkey and deserved to be independent.

However, during his imprisonment Ocalan gradually moved away from Marxism and came up with his own ideology, called Democratic Confederalism.

Jineology

Feminism

Adopted by PKK and implemented by Rojava in Syria

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kurdistan-Workers-Party#ref1106877 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/303045.stm The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan : Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism Yilmaz, Özcan (2015). La formation de la nation kurde en Turquie (in French). Graduate Institute Publications. p. 137. ISBN 978-2-940503-17-9.