Istanbul- Turkey; On Sunday 11th April, Turkey, Iraq and the US convened in Istanbul and agreed on a trilateral conspiracy against the Kurdish Resistance Movement in Turkey under the name of “war on terror”.
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara released a written statement and said the participating delegations were headed by Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay, Shirvan Al Waili, and Minister of State for National Security of the Republic of Iraq, and Major General Joseph Anderson of the United States.
The statement said, “Participants had a useful exchange of views on the work of the Trilateral Security Committee and reiterated their strong commitment to combat PKK terrorism. In this regard, they have agreed on the trilateral action plan dated April 11, 2010.”
“The Trilateral Action Plan sets out the guidelines for the future work of the Committee and contains the actions that should be taken to facilitate joint efforts against the PKK. Participants have expressed their commitments to rapidly work on the implementation of the trilateral action plan,” the statement said.
The Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) was founded in 1973 as the result of the continuous and the systematic oppressions and the denial of the Kurdish nation by the occupying powers of Kurdistan. The PKK took up arm in 1984 since all the possible political and diplomatic means applied for 11 years in between 1973-84 proved exhausted. The PKK however declared its first unilateral ceasefire in 1993 since it believed the arm struggle hit its targets. Since 1993 to date the PKK has declared unilateral ceasefires in 6 different occasions and called upon Ankara to solve the Kurdish problem in a peaceful democratic procedure.
Despite the facts that the PKK has declared 6 unilateral ceasefires and also it sent peace groups in two different occasions yet the PKK is considered as a ‘terrorist’ organization by Ankara and the US. It also continues to be on the blacklist in EU despite the court ruling, which overturned the decision to place the Kurdish freedom movement on the EU’s terror list.
“By labelling PKK as a terrorist organisation, the EU and the US are giving the Turkey a green light to target its civilians. They give the Turkish government a free hand to do what it will, a mother of Kurdish martyr said”.
After 1954, apart from the Korean war, 1949-52 and the invasion of Cyprus, 1974, the Turkish Army operations have continued to be exclusively against the Kurds.