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PKK leader Öcalan hands over legacy to umbrella party of leftist-Kurdish alliance

PKK leader Öcalan hands over legacy to umbrella party of leftist-Kurdish alliance

ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News

Hüseyin Hayatsever Hüseyin Hayatsever huseyin.hayatsever@hdn.com.tr

The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has declared the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) - an umbrella party encompassing the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and a number of leftist parties - as the inheritor of the “historical legacy of [my] revolutionary struggle.”

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