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Turkey: Kurdish party calls on PKK to
announce ceasefire 11.9.2006
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Ankara, September
11, -- The head of Turkey's most popular pro-Kurdish
political party on Monday called for Kurdish
guerillas from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) to
call a ceasefire and to work for a peaceful solution
to the Kurdish problem, the ANKA news agency
reported.
Ahmet Turk, head of Democratic Movement Party (DTP)
made the call for a ceasefire at a press conference
in the southeast Kurdish city of Diyarbakir and said
the Turkish government must also make steps to solve
the problem.
Turk said he believed a ceasefire could well be
announced soon.
The DTP is a legal party in Turkey and has the
overwhelming support of Kurds who live in southeast
Turkey. The PKK is considered a terrorist group not
just by Turkey but also the United States and the
European Union.
There has been a marked increase in clashes between
Turkish security forces and PKK rebels. According to
the Turkish military there are around 5,000 rebels
based in mountainous northern Iraq from where they
cross the border to launch attacks in Turkey itself.
More than 32,000 people have been killed, since the
PKK launched its fight for independence or autonomy
for the mainly Kurdish-populated south-east in the
early 1980s.
DPA
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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