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Cemil Bayik (born 1951), also known as Cuma is one of the five founders of the Kurdish separatist movement Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who are still alive and is among the organisation's top leadership as he is a member of the 12-man leadership council of the Koma Civaken Kurdistan (KCK), a Kurdish political umbrella organisation where the PKK is part of and is also part of the 3-man PKK Executive Committee, the leading body of the organisation, which consists of himself, acting PKK leader Murat Karayilan and Fehman Huseyin, a Syrian Kurd, who is the PKK's military commander. In the PKK's first Party Congress in 1978, Bayik was appointed Deputy Secretary General of the organisation, making him the PKK's second man (after Abdullah Öcalan himself) and until 1995 he served as the leader of the PKK's military wing: the Arteshen Rizgariya Gelli Kurdistan (ARGK) or Peoples' Liberation Army. After the capture of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, Bayik teamed up with Murat Karayilan against the reformists in the PKK, as result reformist leaders such as Osman Öcalan, Nizamettin Tas (who previously backed Bayik against Osman Ocalan in a leadership struggle) and Kani Yilmaz left the organisation, Karayilan served as acting leader of the PKK with Bayik as his nr.2. Bayik's position was however weakened when Fehman Huseyin was made leader of the PKK's new military wing Hezen Parastina Gel (HPG) or Peoples' Defence Force. Since then Bayik has been a political leader in the PKK and is in charge of the organisation's relations with Iran, Bayik himself is said to have been to Iran numerous times including to a base he as in Urumiyeh.