![]() The concept of women's liberation was originally borrowed from the historical experience of Marxism-Leninism, but the successive stage of the analysis went beyond the communist conception. Facing these contradictions, the PKK and it's chief, Abdullah Ocalan, paid lot of attention to women's conditions, trying to mobilize women within the Kurdish movement. The means of emancipation were their political and military involvement as they found an opportunity to change their condition-even against men-in struggle. ![]() However this condition has allowed them to be, on one hand, less subject to the policies of assimilation of their governing administrations, while on the other hand it gave them an additional motivation to mobilize. In a society highly underdeveloped and feudal as Kurdistan, women have been always experiencing a double oppression (triple when we adopt the Marxist theory emphasizing class oppression). ![]() ![]() The history of the Kurdish movement is also a story of women. ![]()
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