Mehmet Göktaş of the Kurdizh Hizbullah movement spoke on a rally on 23 October in Diyarbakir. The rally was a protest against the ban of head-scarves in the Turkish education system. The meeting was set up by the pro-Hizbullah NGO Mustazaf Der. Göktaş called on Muslim Kurds not to sent their children to schools. More can be read here. CNN Türk has a good article about the Islamic Kurdish movement here. Reuters also reported about the movement here and the PKK allowed the Kurdish islamist group to participate in the Democratic Society Congress, despite the past. Despite the fact, that some pro-PKK circles suggest the AKP-government is trying to use the group to create splits among Kurds. And therefore released some of their members (of which some ended up in Holland). According to Gareth Jenkins, and my information, the group is now competing both with the Gülen movement, and the PKK. I doubt that the group can be controlled by the state, since it's both Islamic (inspired by the Islamic revolution in Iran), but also Kurdish nationalist. While the AKP-party is more Turkish, and a result of the old Ottoman Islam (or Turkish state islam).
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