الحركة من أجل تقرير مصير في منطقة القبائل

Movement for Self-Determination of Kabylie فرنسية: Mouvement pour l’autodétermination de la Kabylie Kabyle: Amussu i ufraniman n tmurt n iqbayliyen
الزعيم	Ferhat Mehenni
تأسس	30 June 2001
المقر الرئيسي	Paris, France
الأيديولوجية	Independentism Kabyle nationalism Secularism Sovereignty Berberism
علم الحزب

The Movement for the self-determination of Kabylie (MAK; Kabyle: Amussu i ufraniman n tmurt n iqbayliyen; فرنسية: Mouvement pour l’autodétermination de la Kabylie, named Movement for the autonomy of Kabylie (Kabyle: Afraniman i Tmurt n Yeqbayliyen; فرنسية: Mouvement pour l'autonomie de la Kabylie before 3 October 2013); is a Kabyle nationalist and separatist political organization seeking autonomy, self-determination rights of the Kabyle people, and ultimately independence of the Kabylie region from Algeria. It was founded by the Kabyle Berberist Ferhat Mehenni, now president of the Provisional Government of Kabylie in exile, after the "Black Spring" disturbances in 2001.

Since 2021, the MAK has been classified as a terrorist organisation in Algeria after claims from the Algerian authorities saying that MAK members were planning car bombs. The founder of MAK, Mehenni, is arrested by the French authorities and placed in police custody in 2021 as part of an investigation into organised money laundering in relation to sports betting.

In 2011, a close associate of Ferhat Mehenni and a former senior member of the organisation, Idir Djouder, accused the MAK of receiving funds from Morocco (250,000 euros per month) and criticised its management methods. Idir Djouder uses the term "dictator", he describes his "government" and the content of the meetings as formal with decisions taken "elsewhere".

On August 26, 2021, Algeria issued an international arrest warrant for Ferhat Mehenni

On Thursday, May 19, 2022 in Paris, The Kabyle provisional government (Anavad) and the Movement for the self-determination of Kabylia (MAK) presented, the very first draft of the Constitution of what will be the Federal Republic of Kabylia.

MAK claims to speak for the Kabyle people, who express frustration due to the efforts of the Algerian government to assimilate the remaining Berber ethnic group minorities into the Arabized Berber and Arab majority. The immediate goal of MAK is regional self-determination for the province of Kabylie, which, according to Mehenni, could be the "first step towards a Kabyle, Berber State".

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 See also

• Kabyle people
• Berber people
• Politics of Algeria
• Barbacha - A self-governing town in Kabylie.
• Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) - The main Liberal Berber party.
• Socialist Forces Front (FFS) - The main Socialist Berber party.
• Arouch Movement - A Kabyle political organization modelled on traditional village councils.

 External links

• "The Other Intifada" Boston Globe report on the MAK
• "Autonomy in Kabylia: breaking a taboo" Discussion of the autonomist movement in Kabylia in general by Professor Salem Chaker.
• (in فرنسية) MAK official website