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Senior commander of SDF Yousif Nabi fell martyr in Serekaniya as a result of a Turkish airstirke. 

“The first militant, the first comrade, the first martyr” - Haki Karer, internationalistic co-founder of the PKK

Haki Karer (fourth from left) as a student at Ankara University.

The years in which Haki Karer began to study at the university were the years of strong repression as a result of the military coup of March 12, 1971. The effects of the resistance of the revolutionary leaders Deniz Gezmiş, Mahir Çayan and İbrahim Kaypakkaya against the fascism of March 12 shaped Haki Karer very much. He took a place in the front ranks of revolutionary youth resistance, which spread like an avalanche from 1973. During this time, from 1973 onwards, he personally got to know the leaders of the left-wing and revolutionary youth movements. The person who shaped him most and was to change his life was the Kurdish leading personality Abdullah Öcalan.

Haki Karer met Öcalan in 1972 and from then on their paths did not part. The central reason that brought these two revolutionaries together was the ideological line that saw the liberation of Kurdish and Turkish society as a unity.

Haki Karer lost his life on 18 May 1977 as a result of a plot by the “Sterka Sor” after a year at Dîlok (Antep). His death was to deeply affect Öcalan and his friends. Öcalan called his companion Haki Karer his “secret soul”. Mustafa Karasu, a member of the Executive Council of the Community of Societies of Kurdistan (KCK), has reported on Haki Karer’s organizational activities within the workers and students of Dîlok and on the ideological struggle with the Turkish left circles. Karasu, who also took part in the funeral of Haki Karer, spoke extensively about this time.

Although there were not many, the Apoist group had created a core of cadres in Ankara in 1975. The same was to be achieved in Kurdistan’s cities. The logical step was to go to Kurdistan. At the end of 1975 the Apoists began their journey there

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Sêva Mêxekrêj - The Cloves-filled Apple

Kurdish way of saying ‘I love you’

“The Cloves Apple is a naturel and authentic Kurdish souvenir which will last for at least one hundred years and provides continuously natural smell. The cloves apple is an old Kurdish custom. It is seen as a Kurdish symbol of love and peace, and is used for two purposes:

1) Expressing love towards someone to whom you couldn’t express it by words, thus the person has a cloves apple and send off to his/her lover.