Following the Path of the Martyrs

Providing a novel, ground-up perspective on the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s revolutionary struggle, this book explores supporters’ political commitments and practices in Turkish, Iraqi, and Syrian Kurdistan as well as in the German diaspora. Binding the movement together across all these sites, it argues, is a common obligation to the movement’s martyrs, which guides and shapes the struggle in various ways. Through complex relations between the living and the dead, the book contends that the movement’s political structure should be seen as founded on a social order of sacrifice.