Revolution without reckoning

A review of Aliza Marcus’s book ‘Resurgence & Revolution: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight in Turkey and Syria’
Aliza Marcus’s latest book offers a useful timeline of events and insightful interviews with PKK figures; but the darker stains remain woven into a compelling liberation narrative instead of being allowed to disrupt it – leaving empty some much-needed space between romanticisation and demonisation.
Anyone looking for critical literature offering an inside view of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), particularly its Syrian affiliate, encounters a familiar problem. Even accounts not written by former People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters themselves and presented as scholarly studies tend to carry distinctly activist undertones.






