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PKK leader calls on U.S. to end support of
Turkish war against Kurds
13.6.2012 |
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Murat Karayilan, the acting commander of the
Turkey Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and chairman
of the executive council of the Kurdish Democratic
Confederation (KCK). Photo: HPG
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (R) and
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose before
a news conference at the Global Counterterrorism
Forum in Istanbul June 7, 2012. Photo: Reuters
Acting PKK leader Murat
Karayilan called on the U.S. to give up supporting
the Turkish state’s war against the Kurdish people
June 13, 2012
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Turkey-Iraqi Kurdistan
frontier, —Speaking to ANF News agency about
recent developments in the Turkish state's fight
against the Kurdish movement, Kurdish Communities
Union (KCK) Executive Council president and the
acting commander of Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK
Murat Karayılan called on the U.S. to give up
supporting the Turkish state’s war against the
Kurdish people.
Reacting against the statements of U.S. Secretary of
the State Hillary Clinton who during her recent
visit to Turkey said that “PKK continues its terror
activities that have killed tens of thousands of
people”, Karayılan said that “It is the Kurdish
people who are subjected to the terror and pressure
of Turkish police and state. Why doesn’t Mrs.
Clinton see the
Roboski massacre
or the fact that 17.528 Kurdish people were victims
of unidentified murders and at least 30.000 Kurds
were killed in the process since the fight against
PKK started?
Karayılan underlined that the independent movement
of the Kurdish people demand peace, freedom and a
democratic solution to the Kurdish problem in the
face of the state terror which -he added- has made
the Kurdish people protect and defend themselves
against it.
We want the U.S. and colonialism not to take part in
the bloodshed in Kurdistan, said Karayılan and
criticized Clinton for declaring the Kurdish
movement and its military power a terror
organization,www.ekurd.net
regardless of the fact that the movement fights for
the fair rights and demands of Kurds.
KCK Executive Council President Karayılan noted that
the Turkish state intends to destroy the movement of
Kurds through the support and intelligence provided
by the U.S.
Karayılan ended calling on the U.S. to give an end
to the policy of destruction and to respect the
principled policy of Kurds.
The PKK has several times proposed peaceful solutions regarding Kurdish problem,
Turkey has always refused saying that it will not negotiate with “terrorists”.
Since it was established in 1984, the PKK has been
fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the
constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a
Kurdish state in the south east of the country, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000
lives.
But now its aim is the creation an autonomous
Kurdish region
and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who
constitute the greatest minority in Turkey,
numbering more than 20 million. A large Turkey's
Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees,
lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the
way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within
Turkey, reducing pressure on the detained PKK leader
Abdullah Öcalan, stopping military action against
the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish
constitution.
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 PKK is considered ass 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara and 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.
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