The Mentality Has Not Changed
They cannot even tolerate a legal party defending the rights of Kurds in the democratic political domain, a long term genocide plan is in practise. Turkey has no intention of solving the Kurdish issue within democratic means.
Mustafa Karasu- KCK Executive Council Member
They cannot even tolerate a legal party defending the rights of Kurds in the democratic political domain, a long term genocide plan is in practise. Turkey has no intention of solving the Kurdish issue within democratic means.
The banning of the DTP is clear evidence that they cannot tolerate the presence of the Kurdish people in democratic politics. Expressions such as 'they have links with the PKK' are only excuses. This decision means that there is no place in Turkey for a party that defends the rights of Kurds. They have shown this once again against the DTP, who has the Kurdish public behind it, that they will not tolerate them.
The mentality in Turkey has not changed. The democracy they want is a democracy without Kurds. If Kurds do not struggle for their rights then their democracy will work, but when it is the Kurds that are in question then not just the Turkish State but also the media and supposed liberal intellectuals are all blaming the DTP and Kurds.
The Turkish State still wanted to dissolve the Kurds within Turkishness and commenting on the Herri Batasuna example, ''if they accept the autonomy in Spain do you think the PKK will say 'no' to it.''
I give two reasons for the DTP's ban, ''the first; the Prime Minister was saying I will not speak and accept you as an interlocutor if you do not condemn the PKK as a terrorist organisation. In other words he was trying to say: 'if you do not call the PKK 'terrorists' then you are not legitimate! Now they have banned the DTP because they did not accept their legitimacy. The second is that the old Kurdish policy has become bankrupt. Everyone accepts this. However this does not mean that Turkey has embraced a new Kurdish policy. The new Kurdish policy is one of carrying out a prolonged genocide on the Kurds.
KCK: WE ARE AT BREAKING POINT!
The KCK warned that the situation was at breaking point, and that neither their movement nor the Kurdish people would be responsible for repercussions if Mr Öcalan was not taken out of the ‘death pit’ he has been put into.
The conditions of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan had become worse following his prison transfer on 17th November.
The transfer of our Leader Apo from one prison to another is a coup. With this, a new phase has begun in Kurdistan and Turkey. In this phase elimination is being enforced through our Leader Öcalan, and massacres against our people have been given the go-ahead, the policy of annihilation has started and continues to be enforced intensively.
Referring to Öcalan’s conditions as amounting to a ‘‘death pit,’’ The AKP government has transferred our Leader Öcalan to a new cell, however this is not just any old system or cell, but a death pit. In this way they are trying to annihilate him. This annihilation process has been initiated under the guise of lifting the isolation he has been subjected to and improving his conditions. This process of knowingly killing our Leader Öcalan is nothing less than enforcing massacre on our people. It is imperative that nobody views and presents this phase as being normal.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT PUNISHMENT HAS BECOME CONSTANT
The CPT, following visits to Imrali, had decided that Leader Öcalan’s conditions needed to change and be improved. However, the changes that have been put into effect have been exactly the opposite and now there is a deliberate arrangement to kill him. The intensive suppression, psychological torture, cases of physical torture and the poisoning incident have in the past 11 years, seriously damaged Leader Öcalan’s health. This new development has taken his health to a critical point. The new conditions will further damage his already ailing health to an irredeemable point. In the past, solitary confinement punishment was administered for varying reasons, now this solitary confinement has become constant.
THIS PROCESS IS AN ANNIHILATION PLAN
Emphasising that Abdullah Öcalan was not just any prisoner and that his health and safety would determine the future of Turkey, Leader Öcalan is not just any prisoner. The health, safety and freedom of Leader Öcalan symbolises the health, safety and freedom of our people. Also this is a situation that will determine the future of Turkey. As the Kurdistan Freedom Movement we have constantly highlighted that for us and our people the approach towards Leader Öcalan is a reason for peace and war. We have declared five unilateral ceasefires, pulled the guerrillas out of Turkey’s borders and since April 13th declared a unilateral ceasefire; these actions have been taken by our Leader for a peaceful-democratic solution to the Kurdish issue. Leader Öcalan has also written a Road Map for a solution to the issue, but this has not yet been released to the public. For trust to develop between parties, and to develop the process for peace, Leader Öcalan suggested the return of three peace groups from Kandil, Maxmur and Europe, and this was done. The attitude and stance of the AKP government and Turkish State in the face of all this goodwill and effort has exposed their intention of annihilation. The process that is in motion is a total annihilation plan. There is no doubt about this. It is now time for everyone, especially the Kurds that are close to the AKP, to see through the deception, trickery and games of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan and other AKP officials.
A DECLARATION OF WAR
This attack aimed at killing Leader Öcalan is on the verge of creating a process from which there can be no return. At the same time this attack is a project of war that has been developed against the peace project of our Leader, Movement and People. This practise against Leader Öcalan, who has struggled very hard for a peaceful and democratic solution to this issue, is most definitely a declaration of war and massacre. The attacks against our people in major cities are also a sign of this.
THEY ARE PLAYING WITH FIRE
Despite all appeals by our people, democratic parties and human rights organisations, the government has continued its silence and not made any statements. We would like to state that the AKP and all other parties concerned are playing with fire. For this reason, while there is still time, we are appealing for Leader Öcalan to be moved from these conditions which are threatening his health and safety. Taking into account the sensibilities of our people and movement we are calling for Leader Öcalan to be taken out of the cell he has been put into immediately. Otherwise our people and movement will not and cannot be held responsible for what may happen. As a movement we are at breaking point. Nobody should test the patience of our people and movement.
A CALL FOR ACTIONS OF LEGITIMATE SELF DEFENCE
As the organisation that is responsible for the construction of a prison such as this and thus responsible for putting Leader Öcalan’s life in danger, the CPT must not remain a spectator to this situation any longer and visit Imrali within an urgent action plan and examine Leader Öcalan’s conditions. We are calling on the CPT to guarantee the health of Leader Öcalan and to take urgent precautionary measures in beginning his treatment. Furthermore, we are appealing to all other humanitarian bodies, health organisations, democrats, socialists and peace groups to play their roles.
The policies which are being developed around Leader Öcalan do not just concern the future of the Kurdish people, but also the Turkish people and the democratisation of Turkey as well. This is why we are calling on all humanitarian organisations, peace groups, democrats and all those who are in favour of Turkey’s democratisation and the fraternity and equality of Turks and Kurds to raise their voices to stop this practise that will open the path for a civil war, and to be in solidarity with the Kurdish People and defend their democratic futures. This phase is not an ordinary but extraordinary phase. Our Leader’s life is in danger. Every honourable Kurd, wherever they are, in the four parts of Kurdistan, in Europe and around the world, must be in resistance against this. To protect our existence and future against this annihilation and extermination plan we are calling on everyone to resist and strengthen the uprising based on the principles of self defence. We are calling on Kurdish youth and Kurdish women to lead this self defence and take it to victory.
we can only welcome any transformation in the Western perception of the Kurdish freedom movement and the Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Ocalan
Are the latest attacks against patriotic Kurdish youths aimed against the active involvement of the PKK and the BDP in the latest negotiations?
During these twenty years the Kurdish freedom movement’s proposals for a solution have been coherent with Turkey’s territorial dignity and have been based on a fundamental democratisation of Turkey.