calan makes me cringe so hard. it's clear this dude was just trying to score some pussy. like many kurds in turkey, calan was raised speaking turkish; according to amikam nachmani, lecturer at the bar-ilan university in israel, calan did not know kurdish when he met him in 1991. nachmani: "he [calan] told me that he speaks turkish, gives orders in turkish, and thinks in turkish." calan's grandmother was an ethnic turk. calan's mother, esma calan (uveys) was rather dominant and criticised his father, blaming him for their dire economic situation. he later explained in an interview that it was in his childhood he learned to defend himself from injustice. calan is a supporter of the liberation of the women, he writes in his freedom manifesto for women that all slavery is based on the housewifization of women. he deems the woman often as being trapped in a situation where she accepts traditional gender roles and a disadvantaged relationship with a man. in 1978 calan married kesire yildirim, who he had met at the ankara university and was of a better household than the regular revolutionaries around calan. they had a difficult marriage with reportedly many disputes and discussions. in 1988, while representing the pkk in athens, greece, his wife unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow calan, following which yildirim went underground. in liberating life: women's revolution (2013), abdullah calan writes: the extent to which society can be thoroughly transformed is determined by the extent of the transformation attained by women. similarly, the level of womans freedom and equality determines the freedom and equality of all sections of society. . . . for a democratic nation, womans freedom is of great importance too, as liberated woman constitutes liberated society. liberated society in turn constitutes democratic nation. moreover, the need to reverse the role of man is of revolutionary importance.
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