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The Grand Turk
Ocalan calls on PKK and Ankara to end fighting
2015-08-10
[RUDAW.NET] The tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has called on the PKK and Turkish government to end ongoing festivities and resume negotiations, which were planned to lead to permanent peace in the country.

The Civil Peace Department, a government-backed organization which supervises the grinding of the peace processor between Ankara and the PKK, published a letter written by Ocalan in which the tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
leader slammed the negotiating partners for the "bloodshed."

"Our (PKK) fighters, leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Turkish government's officials failed to administer and commit themselves to the peace negotiations," Ocalan wrote from his prison on Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara, calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Ocalan said the two sides should immediately go back to the negotiating table and "set a timeline" for the implementation of the grinding of the peace processor.

The Turkish government and Ocalan struck an agreement in 2013 which would gradually end nearly 30 years of violence between the two sides, and pave the way towards a permanent peace treaty.

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
fighting between Turkish and PKK forces resumed following a bombing in the Turkish-Syrian border town of Suruc in which 32 people were killed and 104 others were maimed on July 20.

The PKK later took responsibility for killing two coppers the group accused of criminal masterminding the bombing and having links with the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
responded to the killings with a resumption of bombings against PKK targets in Iraq.
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