Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the PKK (pictured above), sits in a Turkish jail since 1999. He has penned a book, Prison Writings: The Roots of Civilisation (2007), which I reviewed for the journal Millennium in 2008. The review, in conjunction with others, appears on the Web site for Ocalan's publisher. See the review below:
http://ocalan-books.com/reviews.html
As a footnote, Ocalan's lawyers are trying to pass him my review, but Turkish authorities insist it is translated into Turkish first. Ocalan's recent proposals for resolving the Kurdish-Turkish conflict along federalist lines are certainly interesting. A man that once lived by the gun, Ocalan now renounces ultra-nationalism, Marxism, and terrorist violence. Except the Turkish state is not so convinced about his change of heart.
Tamir Bar-On
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