NEWSDESK, — Turkish government needs to recognise the Kurdish interlocutors, said Murat Karayilan in an interview with Firat News Agency (ANF).
The president of Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Murat Karayilan assessed the recent speculation about the possibility of the Turkish state talking with the Kurdish side, ANF reports.
Karayilan also assessed PM Erdogan refusal to talk with the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) and the ongoing war in Kurdistan.
Pointing to the strict isolation imposed on the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan, Karayilan underlined that talks with Ocalan could only take place on condition of him being granted a free and safe environment. This was the only way to find a permanent solution to the Kurdish problem, he added.
The KCK president also noted that “the Kurdish movement was ready to decide to lay down arms forever but this changed when the Oslo talks were suddenly ended by the AKP government.”
Referring to PM Erdogan’s saying he would not talk with the BDP, Karayilan remarked that the Kurdish problem cannot be resolved without its interlocutors: the PKK, Ocalan and the BDP.
Commenting on Ocalan recent meeting with his brother in Imrali, Karayilan said that the government allowed a one-off meeting in the face of recent demands and pressures about the situation of prisoners in Imrali. This meeting didn’t mean the ending of the isolation regime Ocalan is subjected to, he underlined.
“The AKP government wants to create the impression of a new negotiation process despite having no substructure ready to come up with a solution to the Kurdish issue”, said Karayilan and evaluated this attempt as the typical AKP tactics of rising hope without substantiate it.
The KCK president pointed out that the Turkish state should present a project to show that it is genuinely determined to solve the Kurdish issue.
Referring to the possibility of BDP deputies being tried because of their talks with Kurdish guerrillas they met at a road control in the Şemzinan highway in mid-August, Karayilan warned that the arrest of BDP deputies would deepen the war and noted that; “It is a great contradiction for the Turkish state to mention negotiations with the PKK while refusing to sit at the table with the legal representative of the Kurdish political life.”