Editing Abdullah Öcalan (section)

=== Political ideological shift ===
Since his incarceration, Öcalan has significantly changed his ideology through exposure to Western [[social theorist]]s such as [[Murray Bookchin]], [[Immanuel Wallerstein]] and [[Hannah Arendt]].<ref name=":27" /> Abandoning his old [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxism-Leninist]]<ref name=":27" /> and [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] beliefs,<ref name="utopia2"/><ref name="utopia-ecologic-social">{{cite web|author=Alex De Jong|url=https://libcom.org/history/stalinist-caterpillar-libertarian-butterfly-evolving-ideology-pkk-alex-de-jong|title=Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? The evolving ideology of the PKK in ISIS' Backyard|work=libcom.org|date=15 March 2015|access-date=20 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="biehl dialectics" /> Öcalan fashioned his ideal society called [[democratic confederalism]].<ref name="biehl dialectics">{{cite web|url=http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6calan-and-dialectics-democracy|title=Bookchin, Öcalan, and the Dialectics of Democracy|last=Biehl|first=Janet|date=16 February 2012|publisher=New Compass|access-date=27 January 2014|archive-date=1 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401092904/http://new-compass.net/articles/bookchin-%C3%B6calan-and-dialectics-democracy|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":27" /> In early 2004, Öcalan attempted to arrange a meeting with [[Murray Bookchin]] through Öcalan's lawyers, describing himself as Bookchin's "student" eager to adapt Bookchin's thought to Middle Eastern society. Bookchin was too ill to meet with Öcalan.<ref name="biehl dialectics" />