A decade after the world became aware of the Yazidis due to ISIS’s brutal invasion and genocidal campaign, the community is finding hope and a path to true democracy in the self-administration of Sinjar (Şengal), Iraq, through the philosophies of Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan is the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and has been incarcerated in Turkey for 25 years.
Öcalan has been held in complete incommunicado for over 39 months, and has spent the majority of his 25-year incarceration in solitary confinement. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is not open to discussions regarding Öcalan’s isolation. In this context, ‘Öcalan Dialogue Days’ events are being organised worldwide to voice opposition to his isolation and to discuss his ideas.
As the dialogue days are taking place, the Sinjar Autonomous Administration’s Education Committee member Qasim Fîqfîq spoke about Öcalan and their own liberation. A couple of years before the Yazidi massacre, Abdullah Öcalan had already written a poem about Yazidi hero Derwişe Evdî.
