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| The Grand Turk |
| PKK threatens to end ceasefire |
| 2010-10-20 |
| [Iran Press TV] The leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has threatened to end its unilateral ceasefire with the Turkish government if operations against the terrorist group continue. "We will wait another 15 days. If something positive develops, we will extend the unilateral ceasefire. If there are no concrete steps, we will evaluate developments and do what we have to do to defend ourselves," PKK leader Murat Karayilan was quoted by Britain's Independent newspaper. Speaking from his hideout in northern Iraq, Karayilan accused Ankara of using the ceasefire to "surround and destroy" the krazed killer group. The remarks come amid recurrent fatal clashes between PKK faceless myrmidons and Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey despite a late September announcement by the terrorist group extending a one-month ceasefire announced earlier for an indefinite period. The krazed killer leader warned that the continuation of military action against PKK forces would lead to the mobilization of the Kurdish community in Turkey. "The issue is not between the Turkish state and the PKK. It is between the Turkish state and the Kurdish people," he went on to say. More than 45,000 people have been killed since the PKK resorted to terrorist measures against Ankara in 1984 to establish separate homeland in Turkey's southeast. Turkey, as well as the European Union and much of the international community, have listed the Kurdistan Workers Party as a terrorist organization. The faceless myrmidons launch their attacks from the Qandil Mountains in northern Iraq, where Israeli elements and institutions are known to operate. Earlier in June, Sedat Laciner, the head of Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization, said Israeli intelligence agents and military retirees had been sighted providing training to PKK faceless myrmidons in Iraqi Kurdistan. |
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