Besê Hozat: We will all be pioneers of this process

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NEWS CENTER - Speaking at the PKK 12th Congress, KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Besê Hozat emphasised that they will lead the process, which she described as "historic".
 
The decisions taken at the PKK's 12th Congress, which was organised upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's "Call for Peace and Democratic Society", remain on the agenda. The PKK decided to dissolve at the congress. Fırat News Agency (ANF) also published the congress speech of KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Besê Hozat.
 
Besê Hozat first greeted Öcalan with respect and longing. She also paid tribute to PKK co-founders Ali Haydar Kaytan and Rıza Altun, whose martyrdoms had been announced at the Congress. Besê Hozat said: "Why are we holding this congress? Why have we come to this point? When we deeply reflect on these questions, we realize, as the Leadership [Abdullah Öcalan] has said, that this is not an ending. We clearly understand that it is a brand-new beginning, a process of change, transformation, and restructuring. When we look deeply at history, at our own struggle, and at the Leadership's perspectives, especially those developed for this period, we can easily reach this conclusion. This allows us to step outside the emotional atmosphere. I have personally experienced this as well."
 
Besê Hozat continued: "The Leadership’s perspectives are truly striking. For every congress, the Leadership has presented a political report. In many congresses we’ve attended, those reports were read, and discussions and outcomes were shaped around them. This congress has been made possible by the Leadership’s intervention, breaking through the torture and isolation conditions of Imralı. We had the great fortune to read the political report prepared by the Leadership. Of course, creating the conditions for this, enabling this moment, was the result of great struggle. Opening this congress with the Leadership’s report and basing discussions on it is the fruit of that struggle. The center of that struggle has undoubtedly been Imralı.
 
Besê Hozat added: "There has been an heavy struggle and war ongoing at Imralı for 26 years. As a movement, guided by the Leadership’s line, even in the period before 1999, but particularly since the conspiracy, we have tried to follow that line, to resist. All our strength and belief come from there. I wonder whether, without those five books of the Leadership’s defense writings, without his consistent and determined interventions in every period since the 7th Congress, could we have sustained such a monumental struggle for 26 years? Could we have survived? I believe not. Without the Leadership, our lifespan would not have been this long. The more the Leadership transcended himself, the more he enabled the Movement to open up. As he reinvented himself, he reinvented and regenerated the Movement, renewing and reshaping it, he pushed it to transform, grow, and strengthen."
 
Besê Hozat concluded her intervention by saying: "We are writing a new history. History will be placed on its feet, and we will be its pioneers. The freedom history of peoples will be written. The Leadership is revealing all the truths and putting everything on solid ground by reaching the truth of the peoples’ quest for freedom. The PKK has undoubtedly played its role. Above all, it has left a profound mark on history. It has created immense values and meanings, not only for the Kurdish people and women, but for all of humanity, and has become part of history. In that sense, it leaves behind a legacy. Now, we will build a new process on that great legacy. Drawing strength, self-confidence, faith, and resolve from it, we will develop this process. We will all be its pioneers and militants. We will be militants of this new process. That is a great honor and pride. It truly excites one deeply. That’s what I wanted to express. I greet all comrades once again."

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