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HABER MERKEZI (DIHA) - KONGRA-GEL Executive
Committee Chairman Murat Karayılan, who evaluated a
statement of Turkish and Kurdish intellectuals
released yesterday, said they found the statement
quite significant, and Turkey should stop military
operations first for armed actions to be quit
without any precondition.
"We are ready to make a sacrifice - to do our
proportion of the work; yet, it must be known that
everything on this subject resides in the
government. Even a single statement of the prime
minister can be enough to stop everything [
clashes], which is not being done", added Karayılan.
Speaking to The Mesopotamia News Agency (MHA),
KONGRA-GEL Head Murat Karayılan told it is not they
who had been putting violence on the table as means
for last 7 years, but on the contrary, it is the
Kurdish movement that has been carrying single-phasic
attempts. Karayılan, who pointed out last year's
decision the People Defense Forces (HPG) made on
June 1 meant to be "legitimate right of defense/self
defense", said the main reason behind this is that
Turkey has been conducting military operations in
the region.
"Isolation is fueling inciting the conflicts"
Karayılan also expressed his view that the
continuation of the isolation applied on Kurdish
People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the
legitimization of this were realities that are
fueling the clashes, and said they would defend
themselves against the denial policies imposed upon
the Kurds. "In Turkey, there are inner balances and
conflicts that try to sacrifice the Kurds to these
inner conflicts, which should be seen; yet, with
this approach Turkey will lost not the Kurds. Turkey
is dragging into pretty dangerous points with these
policies, or being dragged. If not precluded, this
environment of clashes will climb increasingly and
may be able to exceed that of the early 90s. The
course of the events is proceeding as such;
unfortunately, Turkey's peoples and democracy would
lose if it is going so. All the patriotic people of
Turkey, no matter whoever they are- Kurdish or
Turkish-, should struggle, which is a necessitation
and civic duty from our point of view".
'The Kurdish movement was decided to be
annihilated by violence'
Evaluating the statement of 140 Turkish and Kurdish
intellectuals as a significant step taken towards
solution of the Kurd Question, Karayılan called the
declaration an initiative that had been delayed a
little. "We were telling for a while, but there was
none hearing us. The Turkish government had made the
decision to annihilate the Kurdish freedom movement
by violence, conveying the question to the army. In
this connection, it has been carrying tens of
thousands of its militaries to Kurdistan; 10,000
additional troops have been deployed to only Çukurca
County, Hakkari. There is a state of a judgment, a
decision had been made. There is a wind of attacks
appearing in public".
US visit and the intelligentsia
Touching upon the intellectuals' demand that
guerillas should their guns without any
precondition, Karayılan implied that "now Mr.
Intellectuals wants the guerillas to leave their
arms without any precondition. If what they intend
by this is to mean attack actions, this is
acknowledgment and has no meaning; guerillas have to
put their defense-aimed actions into practice in
terms of their conditions. No one can tell you to
obey being death and not to use your gun, while the
army comes to kill you. As no one can tell this and
the situation is as what is cited, operations should
be terminated for the guns silence entirely;
because, you cannot ask the arms to be silenced
where there is an armed-oriented move. You have to
make your demand from the both parties, which is
meaningful. Turkish officials are themselves
explaining that they have been assaulting on
Diyarbakır, Bingöl and so on; therefore, operations
should stopped first in these environment"
"We, as KONGRA-GEL, are replaying the intellectuals
as such; 'If the operations have ended, we stop
armed actions, too, by our impression and convincing
power on the HPG. This is not a precondition, but a
compulsory situation. To understand is necessary for
the solution of the Question. In addition, what is
appropriate to human dignity, his honor and the
contemporary law is this. We are ready to do our
proportion of the work to the last, yet no one can
expect us to put an approach that will eradicate our
reality forward. I think what the intellectuals have
wanted is not this. We will also make attempts in
order the collisions to be ended and for the
Question to be solved. 15 Days ago, on June 1, 2005,
we did make a cease-fire call, but the Turkish army
augmented the operations. Now the intelligentsias,
the voice of democracy, are saying the same. Of
course, we are affirming this and thinking to
broaden the attempts more; yet, it must be known
that everything on this subject resides in the
government. Even a single statement of the prime
minister can be enough to stop everything [clashes],
which is not being done. There is the role of
domestic contradictions and balances. We think that
the Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been
playing a bad role and is trying to draw benefits
from the conflicts. It is the AKP government that is
responsible for 50 deaths in last month. Well, how
was our June 1 call replied? Turkey did start the
process that expands isolation. The Kurdish people
has been protesting against the previous position of
isolative implementations. These all should have
been taken into account, but the AKP government
regarded our people's volition as nothing. Secondly,
military operation started increasing from the
beginning of June. Thirdly, both the government and
the army went to the USA to enter into an alliance
with the US, for entirely annihilating our movement.
While are attempting for peace, the other side is
trying to destroy us. That is the way how our call
of peace was responded", was quoted Karayılan as
saying.
'Every one should be award of the truth'
"We know well that the course is going towards a
process of serious clashes. As a requirement of the
responsibility we feel for the Kurdish and Turkish
peoples, we are expressing our view that we will do
our proportion of work for the process of democracy
and peace develops, save that the Kurdish people is
going to defend itself against destructive assaults.
No one should impose such policies, regarding the
Kurdish people and its force as weak. Every one
should be award of the truth", continued Karayılan.
Karayılan, who argued that the attitude Turkey has
been imposing did not comply with the truth, said in
one hand to set up a federation in the South and to
conduct assaults in the North is not acceptable. We
are telling the Turkish side that ' let's solve the
question on our own. They do not acknowledge this;
so the way left to us is to consider a probable
international solution." Turkey should enter into
Kurdistan with a proper policy not with its
militaries, so we have demanded the democratic
solution for 7 years. However they do not want to
see that the Kurdish people cannot be counted as
nothing. No one can admit that the Kurdish people be
slaved", said Karayılan adding "There is the Kurd
Question in Turkey, and there are millions of people
behind the struggle which they call ''terrorist''.
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