AMED, — Leyla Zana an independent deputy from Amed city outlined the contents of the meeting she held on Saturday with Turkish Premier. She pointed out that it is “unrealistic” to solve the Kurdish issue by asking the Kurdish guerrillas to lay down arms.Zana also pointed out that she had told the PM that the armed conflict is an open wound that can neither be healed by calling on the PKK to lay down arms nor by asking Turkish army to stop military operations.
“I told the prime minister that the people who asked for an apology were not the people of a foreign state but were citizens of this country,” said Zana.
In their meeting Zana had raised the possibility of transferring Ocalan from his isolation in Imrali island to a house arrest and also told Erdogan to continue the so-called Oslo process, in which members of Turkey’s intelligence agency and representatives of the PKK held talks.