Duran Kalkan

Duran Kalkan
Born 1954
Güzelim, Tufanbeyli, Turkey[1]
Occupation Member of the KCK Executive Committee

Military career

Nickname(s) Selahattin Abbas
Allegiance Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
Battles/wars Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Duran Kalkan (born 1954), also known as Selahattin Abbas[2] is a senior commander of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Kalkan was born in Güzelim, Tufanbeyli to a family that immigrated from Erzurum.[3] Initially, serving as a guerrilla commander in the PKK, he succeeded Riza Altun as the PKK's transnational money manager in the late 1980s and managed the organisations finances in Germany until the early 1990s when he moved to Iraqi Kurdistan, to evade arrest warrants.[4] There he served as commander in the Arteshen Rizgariya Gelli Kurdistan (ARGK) and member of the PKK's Presidential Council,[5] eventually becoming a member of the Executive Council of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK).[6]

References

  1. ↑ Biyografi.net - Duran Kalkan
  2. ↑ The Jamestown Foundation Duran Kalkan: The Turk Fighting for Kurdish Irredentism, September 29, 201
  3. ↑ Güzelim Köyü Tarihi
  4. ↑ The Militant Kurds: a dual strategy for freedom
  5. ↑ An interview with Duran Kalkan a commander of the ARGK and a member of PKK's Presidential Council, July 15, 1999
  6. ↑ Executive Council member of the KCK Duran Kalkan, BDP 'Get out of the mountain' proposed