It is because we love Kurdistan so much that we are prepared to die for it," the words of Abdullah Ocalan's bodyguard and driver, cadre Delil Andok, rang out assuredly one warm spring evening in Damascus in 1998--a statement frequently heard until the 1999 show-trial of Abdullah Ocalan on Imrali Island.
The idealized words that Delil Andok uttered, in fact derived from the PKK's formal code of diction at that period (orgutun resmi uslubu). A similar conformity of expression ...