Original sentence: He retains this post until today.In 1978, two years before the military coup in 1980, the Kurdistan Workers Party was founded with Abdullah Öcalan being the leader.Influenced by the situation of the Kurdish people, who were denied the right to live accoring to their own identity by the Turkish state, Abdullah Öcalan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association promoting the rights of the Kurdish people
Edited sentence: Abdullah Öcalan became an active member of the Democratic Cultural Associations of the East, an association supporting the Kurdish people's demands simmilar to PKK.Before the military coup in 1980, in 1978 the Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, was founded with Abdullah Öcalan being the party leader, a post he retains until today