Dear friends,
please allow me to introduce myself: My name is Reimar Heider, I am one of the German
translators of the books of Abdullah Ocalan, political prisoner and most influential kurdish thinker
and politician.
Ocalan has been in solitary confinement for the last five years now. During that time he has read the
Turkish translations of some of Murray Bookchin's books, especially “The Ecology of Freedom”
and “Towards an ecological society” which have influenced him deeply. He has re-built his political
strategy around the vision of a “democratic-ecological-society” and developed a model to build up a
civil society in Kurdistan and the Middle East. He has recommended Bookchin's books to every
mayor in all kurdish cities and wanted everybody to read them.
I don't now whether Mr. Bookchin is informed about this, but I am sure he will pleased to hear
about it. His books, especially “The Ecology of Freedom” are read and discussed a lot now in
Turkey and Kurdistan. (I myself have read “The Ecology of Freedom” in Turkish and German and
given a seminary about it).
I am sorry that there are no english translations of Ocalan's latest books avaliable yet. I would like
very much to demonstrate the influece of Mr. Bookchin's and other books on him to you. But if
some of you understand German I can send you some pages from his latest book
Unfortunately I was not able to find out Mr. Bookchin's the e-Mail-adress. I am sure you can help
me with that if he has one. If not, I hope you can forward him my warmest greetings. I would very
much like to get in touch with him.
Thanks for your help,
Reimar Heider