# Freedom Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish People - Hardcover

by **Sean Michael Wilson** (Author), **Keko Keko** (Illustrator)

**Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring  
the life and struggle of Abdullah Öcalan, affectionately known as "Apo."  
**

Highly regarded around the world, Öcalan led the  
Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in  
1978 until his abduction by the Turkish state in 1999. He has, so far,  
spent twenty-five years in captivity. In this graphic novel we learn, in  
his own words, what Öcalan's childhood was like in the partially  
Kurdish areas of Eastern Turkey and how his political awareness and  
commitment grew as a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through  
the personal struggle of Öcalan we also see the terrible devastation  
that Kurdish people have suffered and learn about the tumultuous and  
dramatic history of the relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish  
state.

The book also dives into the theories developed by Öcalan  
that continue to influence the ongoing struggle today. Expanding on  
these, the second part of the book gives us a wider consideration of the  
issues and policies around women's freedom, democratic confederalism  
and paints an inspiring picture of one of the most impressive attempts  
to build a genuinely grassroots democratic system anywhere in the world.  
The struggle going on in the Autonomous Administration of North and  
East Syria, also known as Rojava, is one that is directly combating  
gender and racial discrimination and the abuses of the capitalist  
economic system--in truly interconnected ways.

This wonderfully  
illustrated graphic novel is a collaboration between award-winning  
Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson and Kurdish artist Keko, with  
backing and research help from Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and the  
International Initiative "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan--Peace in  
Kurdistan," groups with long term and impassioned commitment to the  
cause of Öcalan and the Kurdish people's freedom.

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 1 x 10.1 x 7 IN

**Publication Date:** July 30, 2024

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