** Foreword

** Etymology of the words Kurd and Kurdistan

** Kurdish settlement area and Kurdish language

** A short outline of Kurdish history

** Struggles for resources, war and state terror in Kurdistan

** European colonialism and the Kurdish dilemma

** The ideological basis of colonial oppression and power politics in Kurdistan

** Denial and self-denial

** Assimilation

** Religion and nationalism

** Bourgeois nationalism

** Kurdish identity and Kurdish resistance

** The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)

*** Short outline of the history of origins of the PKK

*** Main criticism

** New strategic, philosophic and political approaches of the Kurdish liberation movement

** The present situation and suggestions for a solution