Abdullah Ocalan Quotations

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

I used to be someone who would not even tread on an ant. But this is a war for honor and self-defense. A 100 percent elimination policy (by Ankara of the Kurds) has forced me to defense and it has become a glorious defense of a people.

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

You must believe before everything else that the revolution must come, that there is no other choice,

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Greece has for years supported the PKK movement. They even gave us arms and rockets.

If we were to show our real armed power, the results would be much worse.

If the truth needs to be told, I love Turkey and the Turkish nation and I want to serve it.

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

Even though I am 50 years old I have never allowed myself to get old. I am going on with the struggle, ... Apo.

Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,

seriously endangered the...indivisible unity of the Turkish republic.

If permission is granted, I say I can bring down all the men from the mountains within three months,