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PKK calls for uprising against Turkey
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December 3, 2009
QANDIL Mountain, Turkey-Iraqi Kurdistan
border, — The PKK’s leadership declared in a
statement that there is an murder plan of the
Islamic AKP government against it’s imprisoned
leader Abdullah Öcalan. “They are trying to
annihilate him,” the PKK’s executive council said.
The PKK called on Kurds to carry out actions and
demonstrations.
According to the Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
the ‘annihilation process has been initiated under
the guise of lifting the isolation he has been
subjected to and improving his conditions', but
Ocalan’s lawyers says his conditions are worsening
and that the Kurdish rebel leader has a hard time to
breathe. “This process of knowingly killing our
Leader Öcalan is nothing less than enforcing
massacre on our people”.
The PKK asked the European Committee for the
Prevention of Torture (CPT) to visit the prison
island Imrali to examine Öcalan’s conditions.
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Murat Karayilan is the acting commander of the
Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren
Kurdistan - PKK) and chairman of the executive
council of the Kurdish Democratic Confederation (Koma
Civaken Kurdistan - KCK). |
“We are calling on the
CPT to guarantee the health of Leader Öcalan and to
take urgent precautionary measures in beginning his
treatment.”
The PKK says that the approach of the state towards
the PKK-leader is a reason for peace and war. But
the PKK says the state has ignored five ceasefires,www.ekurd.netthree
PKK groups sent from Iraq and Europe to Turkey and
the Ocalan’s roadmap for a solution to the Kurdish
issue. Now the PKK claims the AKP gov’t is trying to
kill it’s leader. “This practise against Leader
Öcalan, who has struggled very hard for a peaceful
and democratic solution to this issue, is most
definitely a declarance of war and massacre”. The
PKK finally called on every Kurds in the world to
participate in an uprising against the state.
The Turkish English daily Today’s Zaman reported
that experts claim the PKK turns to violence in the
cities, in fear of losing strength due to the gov’t
initiative. The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party
(DTP) however, supported the ideas of the PKK and
urged the government to improve his living
conditions immediately, warning that anything to the
contrary would drag the country into clashes
Since 1984 the Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey
(Turkey-Kurdistan) which has claimed around 45,000
lives of Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas. A large Turkey's Kurdish community
openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority.
"The Kurdish question cannot be resolved without
recognizing the will of the Kurdish people and
holding dialogue with its interlocutors," the group
said.
The PKK has long called on Ankara to halt military
operations and agree to negotiations for a solution,
which it says should include official recognition of
the country's Kurds in the constitution.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas,www.ekurd.net
the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
The government categorically rejects dialogue with a
group it labels a terrorist organization and says it
will not let up on the military campaign against the
rebels. The PKK is considered a 'terrorist'
organization by Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to
be on the blacklist list in EU despite court ruling
which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
The European Union, which Turkey wants to join, has
praised Erdogan's efforts to end the conflict. His
so-called democratic initiative aims to expand
cultural and political liberties to address decades
of grievances from Kurds who say they have faced
state-sanctioned discrimination and violence.
It has gone from seeking full independence for the
Kurdish region to calling for regional autonomy and
better cultural rights for Kurds.
Ankara has recently announced measures aimed at
improving Kurdish rights in the hope of undermining
support for the party.
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