NEWS CENTER – Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has a very important place in our party and struggle history. This process should be known in order to understand our party and struggle history in a holistic way. Because it played an important role in the development of the struggle, and later education and school work developed on the basis of this legacy.
Leader Apo aimed to overcome the problems of the Kurdistan revolution and develop the revolution by making the cadres and militants understand the problems faced by the revolution and the solution of these problems on the ground of academia. Undoubtedly, very important developments have been achieved in line with this goal. Ideological organizational problems were overcome by deepening the party and militancy, and progress was made with this. By systematically and scientifically developing this solution style at Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, Leader Apo enabled the staff to experience a radical change and thus reach the consciousness, will and power that will deepen and develop the Kurdistan revolution. When we look at our history of struggle, it is understood that there is a close connection between the establishment of the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy and the development of the revolution. On the other hand, since the Kurdish people re-existed through struggle and gained consciousness, identity and will through struggle, the academy had an important place in the society’s acquisition of these characteristics. Therefore, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has served as a school for not only the party and its militants, but also the society to experience change and transformation.
THE STRUGGLE HAS MOVED TO A NEW STAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Of course, in order to understand the role played by the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, it is necessary to know the conditions of that period, the situation of the organization and its staff, the targets set by the party for that period, and the problems faced by the struggle. In addition to these, it is necessary to know or understand the situation of the Kurdish society, the effects of genocidal colonialism on society, the damage it caused to social and national consciousness, and the problems faced by the Kurdish individual who suffers from all these. The location of the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy is also important, and without knowing this, it is impossible to understand under what conditions and what kind of difficulties the school faced. It is important to know this not in terms of stating the difficulties, but in terms of how the difficulties are dealt with and how the difficulties are overcome.
Leader Apo’s determination of the Middle East area as a base was to take the struggle against the genocidal colonialism, embodied as the September 12 fascist junta regime, to a new stage. Undoubtedly, the struggle would be fought in Kurdistan. The Middle East area was seen as a training and base place for the struggle to be given in the country. Therefore, since the party’s direction is struggle and country, an approach was based on making the best use of this field and making use of time and all the opportunities obtained for this purpose. Leader Apo attached great importance to this and trained the organization accordingly. As it will be revealed later, it was only possible to develop the Kurdistan revolution with such an effort. Because the Kurdish society and the individual have almost suffered an erosion of consciousness under genocidal colonialism, national identity, national consciousness, The enemy consciousness and the will to fight and succeed against the enemy were extremely weakened. Let alone the determination to struggle and succeed, he had lost even his ability to come together for a purpose and to be an organization. Fragmentation, alienation from one’s own reality, escaping from or contempt for it was too developed. The repression, assimilation and massacre practices developed on the basis of genocide policies in Kurdistan led to these results. These were features not seen much in other societies. Because the colonialism in Kurdistan was different from the colonialism practiced in other parts of the world. A form of colonialism based on denial and ultimately genocide was applied in Kurdistan. There are hardly any examples of such colonialism elsewhere. It may even be said that in this form it does not exist at all. There is not much like it in history. For this reason, Leader Apo addressed and expressed colonialism in Kurdistan as “genocidal colonialism”. This is an important understanding and conceptualization that reveals the reality of Kurd and Kurdistan. This understanding is important because without it, it is impossible to understand colonialism in Kurdistan and the Kurdish reality in its true nature. Addressing the colonialism in Kurdistan within the framework of classical colonialism is very incomplete in understanding the Kurdish reality, and this approach makes it impossible to understand the Kurdish question correctly. For example, even the Palestinian problem is not as serious as the Kurdish problem in this respect. Undoubtedly, the Israeli state has pursued a policy of dominating Palestine and expelling the Palestinian people from their historical homeland, with historical nationalism and a nation-state mentality. This is a clear genocide. However, there was no denial as the Turkish state did. Mainly, the policy of removing the Palestinian people from their country by using force was implemented. The Kurdish people have been denied and ignored. The Kurds were forced to give up on themselves and join the sovereign nations. This policy leads to the destruction of social identity, consciousness and tissue, and ultimately leads to the fact that society ceases to be itself. In this respect, developing the Kurdistan revolution requires not only fighting the enemy, but also saving the society from the genocidal colonial influences, which makes the struggle difficult. The Kurds were forced to give up on themselves and join the sovereign nations. This policy leads to the destruction of social identity, consciousness and tissue, and ultimately leads to the fact that society ceases to be itself. In this respect, developing the Kurdistan revolution requires not only fighting the enemy, but also saving the society from the genocidal colonial influences, which makes the struggle difficult. The Kurds were forced to give up on themselves and join the sovereign nations. This policy leads to the destruction of social identity, consciousness and tissue, and ultimately leads to the fact that society ceases to be itself. In this respect, developing the Kurdistan revolution requires not only fighting the enemy, but also saving the society from the genocidal colonial influences, which makes the struggle difficult.
SETTLEMENT IN BEKAA VALLEY
Leader Apo moved to the Middle East in 1979 in order to take the struggle to a new level. Little is known about how Leader Apo made his way to the Middle East. This transition has been based on very limited opportunities and limited relations. The fact that the Middle East is a field of struggle in this process is due to the struggle of the Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation. The struggle of the Palestinian people was turning the Middle East into a dynamic field. It had effects similar to those of the Rojava revolution in the Middle East today. Many organizations were able to protect themselves by settling in this field or to obtain some opportunities to achieve their goals. The Middle East was already experiencing intense problems both within itself and with the capitalist modernity system. This in itself gave rise to dynamism, and being here meant being in a heated struggle. The struggle of the Palestinian people and its effects on the Middle East and the world further increased this dynamism. When our movement turned to the Middle East, it settled in areas where Palestinian organizations were located. This was possible as a result of relations with Palestinian organizations. During this period, Palestinian organizations mainly settled in Lebanon. One of these places was the region close to Lebanon’s Syrian border, known as the Bekaa Valley. The party settled in this area and this area was the place where the party was based for a period, where many important meetings and studies were held, as well as where the party cadres were trained. When our movement turned to the Middle East, it settled in areas where Palestinian organizations were located. This was possible as a result of relations with Palestinian organizations.
There were many different Palestinian organizations in this process. For the most part, these organizations had formed various alliances among themselves. Democratic Front, Liberation Front, El Fetih are some of them. The party was trying to create a base for cadres coming from the country by getting in touch with many Palestinian organizations. In this period, there was no place for party cadres to base themselves, to train and organize themselves. So there was no place for the party. However, he could base himself within the means provided by the Palestinian organizations. Each organization provided only a partial opportunity. They helped on the basis that they had a limited number of friends in their camp. The party, on the other hand, had the idea of returning to the country and starting the armed struggle, and planned to attract the cadres in the country to the field of the Middle East and train and prepare them there. In this respect, not with a single organization, It was based on getting involved with all organizations that approached positively. On the other hand, Palestinian organizations were at war with Israel and were making their bases accordingly. They positioned the friends they accepted with them accordingly, and distributed them by placing them in various camps. Therefore, the party structure did not coexist. They lived in different organizations and in separate places. This is how the Bekaa Valley area, which was one of the first places where the party settled, was entered in this way. In fact, the camps of the Palestine Liberation Front were located in this area. So this was their place. As a result of the relations developed with the Palestine Liberation Front, the party placed a group of friends here and stayed here for a while with the Palestine Liberation Front. This was a convenient place in terms of being close to the Syrian border. Gradually, some important work began to be done here. One of these was the PKK 1st Conference held in 1981. The conference was held at the party camp here. As it is known, very important decisions were taken at this conference. The entry of guerrilla groups to the country and the initiation of a new struggle under the leadership of the guerrilla was a decision taken at this conference. In a way, the direction and strategy of the party were discussed and determined at this conference. The PKK 2nd Congress turned these decisions into congress decisions. Therefore, the strategy was mainly determined at the 1st Conference. The entry of guerrilla groups to the country and the initiation of a new struggle under the leadership of the guerrilla was a decision taken at this conference. In a way, the direction and strategy of the party were discussed and determined at this conference. The PKK 2nd Congress turned these decisions into congress decisions. Therefore, the strategy was mainly determined at the 1st Conference. The entry of guerrilla groups to the country and the initiation of a new struggle under the leadership of the guerrilla was a decision taken at this conference. In a way, the direction and strategy of the party were discussed and determined at this conference. The PKK 2nd Congress turned these decisions into congress decisions. Therefore, the strategy was mainly determined at the 1st Conference.
PKK STAFF SET UP LINE OF RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE
As a result of the war that started with Israel’s attack on Beirut in 1982, and then the Palestinian groups’ decision to evacuate their camps in Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Front evacuated their camps here, and after this process, this place became a place where the party stayed and controlled. The 1982 Beirut war meant a defeat for Palestinian organizations. Maybe the Palestinian organizations were not crushed, but because a strong battle line could not be established, the Israeli siege could not be broken and they decided to leave their camps in Lebanon under the auspices of international forces. On the other hand, the PKK played an important role in the defense of Beirut in 1982. A line of resistance was formed in the place where PKK cadres were located, and this place could not be halved by Israeli forces. The fact that Beirut did not fall and that the siege was lifted with the reconciliation of international forces was the result of this resistance. 11 friends were martyred in the defense of Beirut. Many friends were wounded and taken prisoner in the war. The graves of martyrs are located here. In this respect, this is the place where the first martyrdom of the party was established. On the other hand, in the defense of Beirut, the revolutionary aspect and character of the PKK militants, and therefore the PKK, was publicly seen. Until this period, PKK militants were attracting the attention and admiration of the outside with their stance in life and their fair, democratic, organizational and communal life. After the 1982 Beirut defense, the ideological organizational aspect of the PKK was also seen, which further increased the interest in the PKK. While many Palestinian organizations withdrew prematurely without any significant resistance, PKK cadres established an important line of resistance and continued the resistance until the end. The majority of Palestinian organizations could not take such a stance. Because the Palestinian organizations were not completely positioned for the war. Accordingly, they were not prepared. Despite the idea of defending the Palestinian cause in all organizations, the organizational discipline and even the ideological approach was weakened or eroded. The party, on the other hand, was completely focused on the struggle and prepared itself for the war. Because the party was in the attitude of returning to the country and starting the struggle and war in the country, and preparations were made accordingly. The organization and its staff were trained and prepared accordingly. Therefore, the only thing PKK cadres focused on was the struggle.
After the 1982 Beirut war, when this area became a place where the party stayed, many works started to be done here and this place gradually became a center. Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was established here in 1987 and continued to exist here until 1992. Thousands of party cadres were trained here. Leader Apo himself was standing on the academy and giving trainings. In the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, only military training was not provided. Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was a party school, and ideological training as well as military training was provided. After the ideological, political and military trainings received here, the staff reached a level where they could do and carry out all party work. In fact, the contribution of the trainings given at the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has been decisive in the developments in all fields of work, especially in the development of guerrilla warfare. The cadres who graduated from here were both going to the country and developing guerrilla warfare, and going to other fields and doing ideological, organizational and political work. It can be said that the main party work and struggle was based here. Until 1992, this place functioned in this way. In 1992, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was closed. The reason for the closure was the pressure exerted by Turkey on the Syrian state. Undoubtedly, Türkiye was putting this pressure on with the support of NATO. Therefore, the pressure on Syria came mainly from the USA and NATO. When the Syrian state could not resist these pressures, the party decided to close this academy. As it is known, the international conspiracy started with the pressure of the USA and NATO on the Syrian state. When the Syrian state was crushed in the face of these pressures, Leader Apo decided to leave Syria, and this is how it came out. Even though the choice to go to Europe came to the fore in this process, this choice came after the conditions for staying in Syria disappeared. As can be understood from these, the approaches of the Syrian state were not strategic. Their approach was tactical. The predominant were relations with states and state interests. Although the Syrian state approached it like this, Leader Apo took advantage of this field by correctly evaluating the conditions of the period and based on the right relationship and course of action, and successfully survived the most critical period of the Kurdistan revolution by relying on it. When the Syrian state was crushed in the face of these pressures, Leader Apo decided to leave Syria, and this is how it came out. Even though the choice to go to Europe came to the fore in this process, this choice came after the conditions for staying in Syria disappeared. As can be understood from these, the approaches of the Syrian state were not strategic. Their approach was tactical. The predominant were relations with states and state interests. Although the Syrian state approached it like this, Leader Apo took advantage of this field by correctly evaluating the conditions of the period and based on the right relationship and course of action, and successfully survived the most critical period of the Kurdistan revolution by relying on it.
ACADEMY ESTABLISHED AT THE 3rd PKK CONGRESS
Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was established with the decision taken at the 3rd PKK Congress. The fact that it was established by the decision of the 3rd Congress reveals what kind of mission the party has assigned to Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. Every decision taken in the 3rd Congress was in line with the development of the party line and strategy. As it is known, the 3rd Congress is considered as the re-establishment congress of the PKK. Of course, this is an accurate assessment. The 3rd Congress has undertaken and fulfilled such a task. In the 3rd Congress, mainly the problem of war was discussed and how the war would be developed was emphasized. The emergence of the problem of developing guerrilla warfare was the result of the party line not being dominated or taken as a basis. Understanding that, Although there were comprehension problems, the main reason for this was the lack of an ideological perspective to understand and implement the party line. The 3rd Congress mainly focused on this and envisaged that the war problem would be overcome with the correction to be made here.
Leader Apo developed the perspective called “The Way of the Kurdistan Revolution” as a result of the studies and concentrations he experienced in the period that we consider as the ideological group period. These perspectives were also the official organizational manifesto. In the Path of the Kurdistan Revolution, the nature of colonialism in Kurdistan, its historical development and its relationship with capitalist modernity were analyzed and the national liberation struggle against it was emphasized. On the other hand, the development of the Kurdish society in the historical process and the formation of classes were also emphasized. The struggle gained a new dimension after the official establishment of the party, especially after the military coup of 12 September and the party’s transition to the Middle East. This required a new fighting strategy. The basic strategy determined by the party was to bring the struggle to a new stage under the leadership of the guerrilla. On this basis, Leader Apo focused on the preparation of the cadres who had withdrawn to the Middle East, their return to the country and the development of guerrilla warfare. New perspectives developed were also in line with this need. In this process, Leader Apo mainly focused on the role of the war on the development of the Kurdistan revolution and tried to make the staff understand this. On the other hand, the staff also focused on the reasons that prevented the development of this understanding and tried to overcome them. In this process, various perspectives have been developed to meet this need. These were very important historical perspectives and the historical August 15 move developed through these perspectives developed by Leader Apo. On the other hand, in this process, Semir (Çetin Güngör) was implicitly recommending the development of an idea that was completely opposite to the ideas that Leader Apo wanted to develop. Semir, the party’s departure to Europe and the postponement of the struggle; He argued and stated that it was not possible to fight against the fascism of September 12, but theoretical studies could be carried out based on abroad. This understanding was widespread in the revolutionary environment. In the face of the September 12 coup, the idea of going to Europe developed in many movements. This understanding was especially effective in the socialist movements in Türkiye. Those who turned to Europe with this thought became ineffective. The understanding of going to Europe was mainly developed by the system. Because going to Europe meant stopping the struggle. Already, the fascist military coup of September 12 was carried out with the aim of regressing and ending the struggle. Therefore, the arrival of revolutionaries in Europe was a strategy of the fascist 12 September junta regime. Revolutionaries were taken to Europe and directed to search for individual life. Europe had such a negative role. The field of the Middle East was a field of revolution and struggle. Those who wanted to develop the struggle were heading to the Middle East and were based in this field. With these feelings and thoughts, Leader Apo determined the Middle East area as the base area. However, Semir’s understanding and activities predicted to frustrate Leader Apo’s efforts and were very dangerous. Since Semir could not impose the understanding he advocated on the party, he aimed to develop this idea in the party structure by playing with the staff. His activities were in this direction. So Semir was playing with the party line. Leader Apo neutralized this understanding by intensifying the ideological organizational struggle and developing ideological organizational depth in the staff.
THE LIQUID LINE WAS TARGETING DIRECT LEADERSHIP
The initiation of the 15 August operation with the neutralization of Semir (the understanding he advocated) has been a very important and historical development for the Kurdistan revolution. But starting a guerrilla attack did not mean that all problems would disappear. After the start of the move, the enemy’s orientation changed and NATO stepped in. On the one hand, the orientation towards the movement increased, there were orientations aimed at the destruction of the guerrilla, on the other hand, pressure was developed on the party, both inside and outside, to stop the move. One of the areas that developed printing was Europe. In Europe, first Semir and then others declared themselves and tried to draw the PKK to different lines. The aim with this was to break the influence of Leader Apo, to bring the party under his influence and finally to draw it to his lines. Because Leader Apo He was developing and shaping the PKK on the basis of the line of struggle. Therefore, the liquidationist provocative line was directly targeting Leader Apo at first. These attacks were in the ideological direction. But when this could not be achieved, the attacks began to be directed against the PKK. This is how the PKK was banned, first in Germany and then in other European states. If Leader Apo had been neutralized as planned, the PKK would not have been banned, and it would have been transformed into a form that served the system under the influence of the liquidationist provocative line. However, since this could not be achieved, the PKK was banned and criminalized. KDP was one of the forces that wanted the August 15 Campaign to be stopped. When the USA, Israel and NATO stepped in, the KDP changed its stance and imposed a halt to the operation, but when the party did not give up its stance to continue the move, it took an opposite stance. The administration in the country, on the other hand, remained weak in deepening and developing the move. The move was already started late, and after it was started, it could not be deepened and continued. Therefore, the inadequacy of the administration in the country, which was tasked with developing the move, was the determining factor in the failure of the move to continue as planned. Such a result emerged when the administration could not break the influence of the right understanding. Leader Apo’s evaluations on this process are known. Therefore, the inadequacy of the administration in the country, which was tasked with developing the move, was the determining factor in the failure of the move to continue as planned. Such a result emerged when the administration could not break the influence of the right understanding. Leader Apo’s evaluations on this process are known. Therefore, the inadequacy of the administration in the country, which was tasked with developing the move, was the determining factor in the failure of the move to continue as planned. Such a result emerged when the administration could not break the influence of the right understanding. Leader Apo’s evaluations on this process are known.
THE 3rd CONGRESS IS A CONGRESS OF FREEDOM
The failure of the move to continue as planned led Leader Apo to make more in-depth and comprehensive analyzes. The essence of the work carried out with the transition process to the Middle East was to prepare the cadre to return to the country and start the guerrilla attack. In order for this to happen, Leader Apo, on the one hand, was equipping the cadre with the perspectives he developed, ideologically and organizationally, on the other hand, he was struggling with the provocative right-wing mentality that tried to direct the cadre to Europe. As a result, the party moved to the country and the Great 15 August Campaign was launched. It took its place in history as a great success and development. But the move did not proceed as planned. This has been the main problem of the party in this process. Because the strategy of struggle was based on the development of the guerrilla. For this reason, Leader Apo focused on this situation and developed solutions that would remove the obstacles in front of the blockage. In fact, the 3rd PKK Congress was held on the basis of evaluating the emerging practice and mainly solving the war problem. Leader Apo overcame this problem with the new analyzes he developed, and thus both the party development and the struggle moved to a new stage. At the core of these analyzes is a comprehensive questioning and self-transcendence of the personality, which carries historical and social development and is shaped accordingly. Such an approach meant the restructuring of personality on an ideological basis. When it comes to the third congress, Leader Apo’s main obstacle to the development of the war is personality; he concluded that personality formation is ideological as a result of historical and social development. Thus, Leader Apo developed his analyzes based on historical, social and ideological structure. In a way, against the dominant ideology, Leader Apo was putting forward the ideology of freedom, the personality that assimilated this ideology, and the democratization of the society by regressing the hegemonic mentality and politics with the struggle and revolution that this personality would develop. In fact, these analyzes reveal that the roots of the new paradigm and the sociology of freedom that form its core are based on this process. Because these are the steps that make up the philosophy and system of freedom. In this respect, it is quite correct to see the 3rd PKK Congress as a freedom congress. it was revealing the personality that assimilated this ideology and the restructuring of the society on a democratic basis by regressing the hegemonic mentality and politics with the struggle and revolution that this personality would develop. In fact, these analyzes reveal that the roots of the new paradigm and the sociology of freedom that form its core are based on this process. Because these are the steps that make up the philosophy and system of freedom.
The decisions taken at the third congress were in line with the development of guerrilla warfare. One of these decisions was the establishment of the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. The meaning of this is: The party has given the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy the mission of raising the staff that will develop the line of struggle. This is a historical task. The assignment of this task to the academy reveals that the development is seen in ideological deepening and transformation. Undoubtedly, naming the academy as Mahsum Korkmaz after Egîd’s memory is a very meaningful approach. There is no doubt that Egîd was a friend who best understood, assimilated and implemented Leader Apo’s effort and struggle for the development of the strategy. In fact, the stance of Egîd friend and his works have been in a quality that fully represents and develops the line. This is how Leader Apo defined the reality of Egîd. All the effort of the liquidationist right understanding was to weaken and neutralize the line developed by Friend Egîd. In any case, the unexpected martyrdom of Friend Egîd strengthened the suspicion that the incident was the result of a conspiracy. The martyrdom of Friend Egîd was a great loss for the party and the guerrilla. Leader Apo tried to overcome the great loss the party suffered with this martyrdom by developing comprehensive historical and social analyzes at the Third Congress, condemning the personality and stance that hindered the development of the war in line with these historical and social analyzes and making the guerrilla line dominant. On this basis, in the Third Party Congress, it was decided to train the staff that will develop the 15 August Move at Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. The next process is known. The guerrilla developed the struggle by spreading all over Kurdistan, and as a result, the resurrection revolution took place. The process of popular serhildans and uprisings began in Kurdistan. The concept of denial and annihilation was thus rendered unsuccessful. On the other hand, not only guerrilla warfare and the development of the guerrilla, but also people’s and front-line work developed. Again, important developments took place in Europe and abroad. The party spread everywhere, progress was made in every field. Undoubtedly, all this was the result of the development of guerrilla warfare. The staff that created developments in all these areas was trained in Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. This is how Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has played such a historical role in our party and struggle history. The concept of denial and annihilation was thus rendered unsuccessful. On the other hand, not only guerrilla warfare and the development of the guerrilla, but also people’s and front-line work developed. Again, important developments took place in Europe and abroad. The party spread everywhere, progress was made in every field. Undoubtedly, all this was the result of the development of guerrilla warfare.
THE LINE OF EGIT IS Dominated
The historical analyzes developed by Leader Apo at the Third Congress were covered in depth at Mahsum Korkmaz Academy and moved to the staff. Leader Apo’s analysis of “history is not the moment, but the individual, but the society” was applied to the cadres in this way and put into practice. If important developments took place after this process, the war problem was resolved and a resurrection revolution took place in Kurdistan as a result of the developing guerrilla struggle, it was by processing these historical analyzes of Leader Apo in Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. Leader Apo provided the transformation of the individual and overcoming these problems by addressing all the ideological and organizational problems that the party has experienced on the basis of these analyzes that reveal the individual, which he based on a historical and social basis. As the personality is resolved on this basis, renewal takes place and this reflects positively on the struggle. In this respect, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has become the place where the new Kurd, the free Kurdish individual and society, is formed. There is such an aspect of academia, and it has an extremely important meaning. Because, within the framework of the method put forward by Leader Apo, the Kurdish individual has been dealt with and analyzed in terms of its historical and class dimensions, and the Kurdish society has been handled and analyzed in the person of the Kurdish individual. In fact, Leader Apo’s approach of “it is the society that is resolved, not the individual” expresses this.
One of the most important features of Mahsum Korkmaz Academy is undoubtedly that it is the place where the line becomes clear and guerrilla warfare develops. The concrete equivalent of this has been determined as the stance and practice of Egîd friend. In fact, the establishment of the academy with the decision taken at the Third Congress is to fulfill such a task. By giving such a task to the academy, Leader Apo made the line of friend Egîd dominate the party and the guerrilla.
One of the understandings analyzed in Mahsum Korkmaz Academy has been a journey to the middle. In the third congress, the focus was on the right-wing mentality, which hindered the deepening and continuation of the 15 August Campaign and the development of the guerrilla. Because the deepening of the move and the spread of the guerrilla and removing the obstacles in front of it were the most basic problem and it was urgent. In this respect, the congress mainly focused on overcoming this problem. However, while this understanding was being resolved and condemned in the congress, it sought to organize itself and make it dominant on the basis of reconciliation with an unconventional understanding. Mid-journey thought that such a backdrop had been laid for him. Ferhat represented this understanding. Ferhat aimed to stand out by getting out of the line between the right line and the out-of-line understanding, which did not develop the war by reconciling with the out-of-line understanding. It was clear that Ferhat had such an approach. Because although he attended the Third Congress and knew the decisions of the congress, Blind Cemal, who did not develop the war and deviated the line of war, etc. He did not criticize individuals. He had agreed with them. However, when Leader Apo analyzed and condemned the understanding of the middle passenger in Mahsum Korkmaz Academy and these analyzes reached the country as instructions, Ferhat’s plans were also disrupted. In fact, Ferhat’s conflict with the party and his reaction to Leader Apo was after the instruction that resolved the middle journey. Because Ferhat had a separate mission for himself and expected such an approach from Leader Apo.
The first systematic analyzes of women were also carried out at Mahsum Korkmaz Academy. Leader Apo had previously focused on women and developed various analyzes. However, Leader Apo developed the first comprehensive analyzes of women based on ideology in 1987 here. Leader Apo’s concentration and the analyzes he developed became the basis of all subsequent developments. Women’s militarization and partisanship also emerged on the basis of these analyses. As Leader Apo developed analyzes on the basis of the ideology of women’s liberation, the women’s organization, which developed abroad, moved to the country, and this gradually led to women’s army and partisanship.
THE ACADEMY IS FEED AND PROTECTED BY THE PUBLIC
Mahsum Korkmaz Academy is not only the place where cadres are trained and conscious, but also has a very important function in terms of getting the Kurdish people to know the party and participating in the struggle. Even before the academy was opened, many people from the public were coming here, trying to see and understand Leader Apo and the party. In particular, there were arrivals from Lebanon, Syria and Rojava. Leader Apo was personally interested in the people, trying to explain and make them understand the party and its aims. As the people got to know Leader Apo and the struggle, the arrivals increased. So much so that many events were started to be held in which the people participated in large masses. The people participated in the founding anniversaries of the party and the Newroz celebrations. Leader Apo attended these events and gave speeches to the public. With the opening of the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, this intensity continued to increase. Many families now bring their children with their own hands and give them to the party. Thus, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy served as a place where the public got to know the party and the struggle, and their participation in the struggle improved. Aside from everything, the fact that the Kurdish people come together in this process means a great development. On the other hand, the area where the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy was established was also a commune organization. Kurdish workers who were in Lebanon or came to Lebanon to work were trying to meet the needs of the camp, especially food, by establishing a commune among themselves. Especially the Kurdish workers made great contributions to the provisions. So much so that Palestinian organizations were stunned by this. Because although they were the people of this place, they did not have such an approach of solidarity with the society. Seeing that this was in the PKK surprised them, causing them to look with envy. It can be said that all the needs of the academy were met by the people and workers in this way. This went on for years. In this way, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, which trained and graduated the staff, was fed and protected by the people. When the academy was closed and schools were opened in Damascus and other places, the people continued the same solidarity. Everything that met the needs of friends was sent from Afrin, Kobanê and Cizîr, especially food and goods. It can be said that all the needs of the academy were met by the people and workers in this way. This went on for years. In this way, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, which trained and graduated the staff, was fed and protected by the people. When the academy was closed and schools were opened in Damascus and other places, the people continued the same solidarity. Everything that met the needs of friends was sent from Afrin, Kobanê and Cizîr, especially food and goods. It can be said that all the needs of the academy were met by the people and workers in this way. This went on for years. In this way, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy, which trained and graduated the staff, was fed and protected by the people. When the academy was closed and schools were opened in Damascus and other places, the people continued the same solidarity. Everything that met the needs of friends was sent from Afrin, Kobanê and Cizîr, especially food and goods.
Another very important feature of Mahsum Korkmaz Academy is the role it plays in the development of patriotism in the people of Rojava. Mahsum Korkmaz Academy played a very important role in helping the people of Rojava recognize the party and the struggle. In fact, all of Leader Apo’s work meant educating, preparing and motivating the people of Rojava to struggle. Therefore, the foundations of the Rojava revolution were laid here and in this process. This is the historical role played by the Mahsum Korkmaz Academy.
When it was closed in 1992 as a result of pressure from Turkey and the USA, Mahsum Korkmaz Academy had more than fulfilled its historical duties and responsibilities. All subsequent party schools and educational work developed from this legacy.
