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Report: PKK Leader Urges U.S., EU to Broker Peace with Turkey
[AnNahar] Kurdish rebel leader said Sunday that ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has slipped into a civil war with the Kurds, as he urged the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and the United States to step up as peace brokers to end the conflict. "Military tanks, artillery and helicopters are being deployed in the south of Turkey against the Kurdish civilian population. The situation is the worst in decades," Cemil Bayik, one of the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) told Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "The Turkish government say: this war will last until all Kurdish fighters surrender or are killed. Therefore I say that yes, we Kurds are once again in a civil war with Turkey," said Bayik, speaking at his group's stronghold of northern Iraq's Qandil mountains. Bayik along with Murat Karayilan is considered the PKK's top commander on the ground in the absence of its tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! chief Abdullah Ocalan. Southeast Turkey has been rocked by a new wave of unrest that has left several hundred people dead since a two-year-old truce between Ankara and the PKK fell apart in July. The PKK tore up the unilateral ceasefire it had declared in 2013 after Turkey began waging a relentless campaign against the group in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq. "If the military act against the Kurdish civilian population, then we will defend the Kurds. That is our right and our responsibility," said Bayik. At the same time, the PKK leader said he still believes in a political solution out of the crisis. "We don't want to fight anymore. We want political solutions. For that we need a peace broker, a third party," he said. "Therefore we are asking the United States or Germany as part of the EU, to take on this task." Both the U.S. and the EU have put the PKK on their list of terror organizations. But Bayik said it was time to review that listing, as he underlined the role that his group has played in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists. "Since we began battling IS on several fronts and freed many people, the people in Europe have begun to understand the real nature of the PKK," he said. "The time has come to finally remove PKK from the terror list." Posted by: trailing wife 2015-12-01 |
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