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PKK: Three conditions to move the
Turkish-Kurdish peace process forward
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Cemil Bayik, a deputy leader of Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) and co-president of the
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council. Photo:
Reuters
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November 7, 2013
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Turkey-Iraqi Kurdistan
frontier,— The deputy leader of the Kurdistan
Workers' Party PKK Cemil Bayık has put forward three
conditions in order for the continuation of the
democratic resolution process in search of a
peaceful question to the Kurdish question;
improvement of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah
Öcalan's situation, a change in legal arrangements
and the participation of a third party in the
negotiations.
Speaking to journalist Faruk Balıkçı, Bayık remarked
that the democratic resolution process was initiated
by Öcalan and advanced by the unilateral steps of
the Kurdish side. Bayık pointed out that the AKP
government has on the other hand taken no steps
intended for a solution and wanted to break the will
of the Kurdish people by following policies
deepening the war in the country.
Bayık stressed that the talks between Öcalan and the
state's delegation should have advanced to
negotiations as of 1 June, as had been agreed by the
state delegation as well, and noted that the
government has however not carried the process a
step forward and paid no attention to the Kurdish
side's warnings that the process would be facing a
deadlock under those circumstances. “The process has
ended in the current state of affairs, and it is the
AKP government itself that has brought the process
to an end”, Bayık added.
Also responding to the intervention in the BDP
(Peace and Democracy Party) delegation during the
last visit to İmralı, Bayık underlined that there
was a need to create equal circumstances for both
sides in order to make sure that the process can
make a progress.
Reminding of the state's previous interventions in
the BDP delegation, the exclusion of firstly Ahmet
Türk, then of Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Selahattin
Demirtaş from the delegation, Bayık said these
people were denied permission to pay a visit to the
island because of the critism they have put forward.
Bayık pointed out that the determination of the
Kurdish side's delegation by the state went contrary
to equality and meant ignoring the will of the
Kurdish side.
Bayık also criticized the government for providing
no information about their intention concerning the
course of the process and not presenting a road map
for a solution to the Kurdish question, and noted
that this was because the government had no
intention to come up with a solution.
Remarking that the state should create equal
circumstances for both sides, make legal
arrangements and improve the conditions of the
Kurdish leader and include a third party in the
negotiations,www.Ekurd.net
Bayık underlined “The government's current attitude
has to change for the negotiation process to begin”.
He added that the government's failure to take these
urgent and essential steps would mean that the
process has been ended by the AKP government.
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