ABSTRACT

This chapter studies the mutation of the PKK’s ideology and programmes. Its ideas and aspiration, aims and objectives are examined in their totality. The discourse, views and ideas of the organization are studied in relation to setting its political targets and corresponding activities: it discusses the formation and development of the ideological wording, the initial political demands and objectives, and the tactical and strategic transformation at specific stages of the struggle in conjunction with the party’s organizational expansion, massification and confrontations. The chapter inspects the alterations in the textual body of the organization with the totality of its consistent, flexible and metamorphosed aspects. In particular, the nationalist undertakings in comparison with socialist aspirations are taken on board.