Freedom Shall Prevail: The Struggle of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdish People

Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as 'Apo.' calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction by the Turkish state in 1999. He has, so far, spent twenty-five years in captivity. In this graphic novel we learn, in his own words, what calan's childhood was like in the partially Kurdish areas of Eastern Turkey and how his political awareness and commitment grew as a student in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through the personal struggle of calan we also see the terrible devastation that Kurdish people have suffered and learn about the tumultuous and dramatic history of the relationship between the Kurds and the Turkish state.