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Barzani urges Turkey's Kurds to choose peaceful path to rights
[RUDAW.NET] On the second day of Turkish ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... "What you can achieve through peace won't be achieved through fighting," Barzani said in a personal message, explaining he wanted to clarify his and Kurdistan's role in helping the PKK negotiate peace with Ankara. His message came as Turkey carried out a number of "I found it necessary to express my own attitude regarding the PKK-Turkey tensions, because there were wrong interpretations and information being given in my name," Barzani said in his late night message. "I am not interested in conflict, and I have never supported it even for a second," he said. Barzani noted that the Kurds had made headway in their pursuit of greater political and cultural rights in Turkey with the creation of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), which brought the Kurdish cause to the center stage. Posted by: Fred 2015-07-27 |
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