The additionally imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas expressed his assist for the choice to be taken by the chief of the Kurdish group PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, who’s imprisoned on the island of Imrali in Turkey.
The previous co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Individuals's Democracy Social gathering (HDP), banned by the Turkish authorities, Selahattin Demirtas, who’s imprisoned within the prisons of Edirne, mentioned in a message that he has full confidence and assist for Abdullah Ocalan, who just a few days in the past introduced that he’s able to contribute positively to the initiative of President Erdogan's ultra-nationalist authorities associate, Devlet Bakhceli, for a Kurdish resolution.
The chief of the Nationalist Motion Social gathering, political wing of the far-right Grey Wolves, has proposed the conditional launch of Ocalan, who’s serving a life sentence, on the situation that he resign armed violence and ask the PKK, which he based in 1977, to put down his arms.
A delegation of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Social gathering (DEM) visited Öcalan in Imrali final month and, after receiving his constructive response, started a collection of contacts with the leaders of the events represented within the Turkish Nationwide Meeting, whereas at present he additionally visited Demirtas.
In his message, Selahattin Demirtas thanks the nation's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Devlet Bakhceli, the chairman of the principle opposition Republican Individuals's Social gathering, Ozgur Ozel, and all different celebration leaders for the initiatives they’ve taken and can take for the peace.
He emphasizes that “essentially the most delicate problem presently is the assist of public opinion. Due to this fact, transparency is extraordinarily essential and essential.”
He additionally states that “if Mr. Öcalan takes the initiative on this problem when the circumstances are proper, we shall be by his aspect” and “as he (Ocalan himself) has additionally acknowledged, the accountability for creating the authorized and political foundation for such an invite belongs to to the federal government and the Parliament”.
Demirtas notes that their accountability as politicians is “to extend the peaceable, political battle for democracy, freedoms, equality, justice and elementary human rights” and added: “The channels and potentialities of this battle should be opened now, in order to strengthen the bottom for peace.”
In line with the Kurdish politician, “all those that discuss these points ought to keep away from the language of threats, blackmail, humiliation and provocative speech and as a substitute of making an empty and meaningless rhetoric based mostly on the rhetoric of defeat, they need to deal with a standard future the place all of us win.”
He additionally notes that to ensure that the peace course of to take form, concrete confidence-building steps should be taken shortly. “We’re prepared to offer every kind of assist to eradicate the conflicts, which have been inflicting untold distress in these lands for years and are draining all of the vitality of the nation, in addition to to implement a political peace.”
He provides, nonetheless, that “political peace shall be lasting and within the curiosity of everybody and the nation solely whether it is completed in a means that opens all of the channels of the battle for social peace, democratization, equality, justice and freedoms”.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan intervened once more at present within the ongoing course of to resolve the Kurdish problem, however prevented naming the PKK and the DEM.
“A brand new window of alternative is opening earlier than our nation to finish the scourge of terrorism. The one aim of the latest efforts is to disband the terrorist group, lay down its arms and provides the celebration, which can’t develop into Turkey's celebration because of stress from the separatist group, a chance to develop on this route,” he mentioned. the Turkish president talking on the convention of the prefectural group of the ruling Justice and Growth Social gathering (AKP) in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey.
“It's about closing a half-century of separatist terrorism. It will take away one of many greatest obstacles in entrance of an incredible and robust Turkey,” mentioned Tayyip Erdogan.
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