IMRALI PRISON, Turkey, — Speaking to his lawyers last Wednesday the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan stated that an interlocutor for the solution of the Kurdish question is yet to be found.
Referring to the Yemen and Tunisia rebellions, Ocalan said to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), DTK (Democratic society Congress) and Qendil: “You have the sample cases in Yemen, Tunisia. I will not stop you if you are sure of yourselves”.
Ocalan said; “We wanted to wait and see till June 15 to give a chance to the dialogue process but the current events are astonishingly obvious. They must make the decision by themselves. As to the 5- days visit by the CIA President, it is understood that Turkey and the U.S made a secret deal”.
Pointing out to the ongoing operations, Ocalan continued as follows; “It is clear that these political and military operations will not stop. Moreover, they are preparing for a greater operation. The operations are carried out both in cities and rural areas. We are in a critical process but Elections Board decision is for sabotaging the talks with me which have been taking place for about three years. On one side they are conducting negotiations with me, on the other side, the political and military operations continue. This is an exclusion policy which is getting deeper”.
The Kurdish national leader added; “The government is trying to purge the BDP and the PKK with political and military operations and to create a new Kurdish party in cooperation with some collaborationist Kurds. There exists a deep purge which had in fact started long ago through JITEM (Gendarme Intelligence Service) and continues now within the police academy. It is obvious that the negotiations conducted with me here do not have an initiative and cannot get the talks through the AKP. The last situation will become clear till June 15 after a couple of probable negotiations to be made here. I am calling out to the Turkish public; we wanted to reach a conclusion through democratic constitutional solution and did all we could but the respond to us comes with political-military operations and purge. I am also calling out to the guerrilla to make their own self-defense”.