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| The Grand Turk |
| PKK formally ends unilateral ceasefire with Turkey |
| 2015-11-06 |
| [Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) umbrella organization on Thursday declared a resumption of a deadly conflict with the Turkish government, formally ending a unilateral truce. "We are going to resume our military activities in northern Kurdistan and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," said the leadership of the Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK), which was founded by the PKK to put into practice jugged You have the right to remain silent... leader Abdullah Ocalan's ideas. The statement said that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is unwilling to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey, and is demonstrating "the will to fight." It added: "We are always ready for a bilateral ceasefire; when we declared a unilateral truce the Turkish army kept attacking us in northern Kurdistan." "Turkey does not take any initiative to solve the Kurdish question in Turkey because they are not serious," it said. The KCK praised the role of other democratic parties in Turkey: "through struggle we will fulfill a free and a democratic environment and all democratic parties should ramp up to stand against the Fascist AKP." The KCK's announcement followed Turkey's declaration of a curfew on parts of its southeastern Kurdish Diyarbakir province on Wednesday, reportedly ahead of an expected major crackdown against the outlawed PKK. |
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