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• W2961603954 abstract "Abdullah Ocalan has become one of the most ‘popularized’ political figures in Turkey’s political sphere over the last forty years. While he has mainly been studied as part of works which focus on the PKK, as the leader of the first massified modern Kurdish movement, Ocalan has not himself been the sole subject of an academic study. More importantly, only a handful of national and international scholarship have engaged with analysing the ways in which Ocalan is perceived, internalized and hegemonized by his followers on the basis of a field study. Despite this absence of analysis, as being acknowledged as the ‘indisputable’ leader of the current hegemonic Kurdish movement in Turkey, Ocalan possesses a central political power and represents a strong axis within the Kurdish population today, not only in Turkey but also within the Middle East. For instance, besides Iraqi Kurdistan, the ‘Rojava Revolution’ that took place in Syria represents a live example of Ocalan’s impact beyond Turkey’s borders and the dedication that exists towards him among the Kurdish community in the region. Over a forty-year period, Ocalan's power and impact have increased from the status of ‘comrade’ to that of ‘leadership’. It is significant that hegemonic Kurdish politics and its followers hold Ocalan above criticisms; they widely indicate that, if Ocalan and the PKK had not existed, nobody would have accepted the presence of the Kurdish identity in Turkey. Eventually, Ocalan became a cult of a personality who dominated all debates surrounding the Kurdish issue in Turkey and gradually within the Middle East, and today his ideas and philosophies strongly influence Kurdish society, which is divided across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey as well as the Kurdish diaspora members who migrated from these countries to different parts of Europe. Besides this, in today’s world, when the Kurdish issue is raised, Ocalan is the figure that spontaneously comes to mind. It is clearly understood that the Ocalan cult seems to embody diversified – sometimes conflicting- hopes and ideals of Kurds as a nation. This is despite the lack of a nation state. In the eye of outsiders, the status of Ocalan is akin to that of owner of the Kurdish issue. Despite or maybe as a result of his significant role in the reformulation and popularization of Kurdish nationalist ideas in Turkey, during the extraordinary years of armed conflict especially in the 1990s and in its highly polarized social-political context, the perception of Turkey’s Kurds has been taken for granted as largely homogeneous one, and presumes two strict categories in which Kurds are defined as either ‘for’ or ‘against’ Ocalan. This ‘public script’ does not engage with the more complex reasons and content of such support or opposition and has consequently resulted in the creation of the ‘good’ and ‘bad’, or ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’ images of the Kurd in which the ‘good Kurds’ are seen as having an innate and natural potential to turn into ‘bad Kurds’. More importantly, the voice of Kurds that is embedded in the face of Ocalan has not been the subject of a public or academic curiosity. Therefore, the aim of this study is to discuss the sacralization of politics in the case of Ocalan through the perception of Kurds. While doing so, a comparative approach is employed by means of elaborating Ocalan’s discourse via the PKK as it is one of the primary sources of the sacralization of his own politics and by focusing on the motivations, meanings, place and the functions of the sacred narrative which revolves around Ocalan in the politics and realms of Kurds. This comparative approach is required due to examining the line of interaction between Ocalan’s discourse that is presented and realized via the PKK and its reflections on and reinterpretations in the worlds of Kurds. For these reasons, situating the topic in a historical context with its socio-political components is a requirement for this study as both the PKK and Ocalan perception of Kurds are socially and politically constructed through the particular historical context of Turkey.Therefore, based on the empirical research conducted with diversified Kurds, the study argues that the Ocalan perception of Kurds in Turkey can be read in the context of a sacralization of politics. This refers to a path in which on one hand Ocalan has changing images/faces over his forty-year evolution from ‘comrade’, to the ‘president’ and ultimately to the ‘leadership’; on the other, he has been attributed in several ways such as a ‘modern Kurdish leader’, ‘Kurdish Charisma’, ‘Authoritarian Kurdish Father’, ‘Kurdish Revolutionist’ as well as ‘project of Turkish state’, ‘the enemy of Kurds’ or the ‘killer of Kurdistan’." @default.
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