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Is Turkey close to a peaceful solution to end terror?

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It seems that the government is very determined to put an end to the terror issue which has cost tens of thousands of lives (of both Kurdish and Turkish origin) in Turkey during the few decades.

In fact, the ruling AKP and the BDP often express they are committed to the ongoing process of finding a peaceful resolution to the issue.

A peaceful solution has never been closer as some experts have stated and both parties involved in in the ongoing resolution process are observed to be spending much effort to eventually finding a peaceful resolution to Turkey’s decades-old conflict

PM Erdoğan has stated that he would do everything to pave the way for serenity in the country.

BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on the other hand has said that the jailed leader of the outlawed PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, who recently met with three BDP deputies, believes that the recent process will lead to an eventual resolution to the Kurdish issue.

The BDP has also received a letter from the jailed PKK leader Öcalan. The PKK leader was quoted as saying “Neither we nor the state can abandon that process” in said letter. . The letter was sent through a courier by the National Intelligence Service (MİT) on Feb 26th.

Demirtaş, the leader of the pro-Kurdish BDP said “There’s a certain determination and desire this time. Parties have focused on the target. They don’t regard the process as hanging on by a thread. We are making persistent efforts in order for that process not to fail”.

Demirtaş said that there was a de facto ceasefire, indicating that the PKK is not carrying out armed action and the army is not conducting considerable military operations against the PKK. He also added that the de facto ceasefire could become official after the process made progress. According to BDP leader withdrawal of PKK militants will become definite after discussions between Öcalan and Kandil – the mountain where the PKK’s headquarters and training camps are based.

Demirtaş, who had not read the whole letter when speaking to reporters, said that the handwritten letter by Öcalan arrived at the BDP’s headquarters in a white, unsealed and unmarked envelope. Öcalan wrote one letter, with three addressees on separate cover letters: the BDP, Kandil and the European wing of the PKK.

The BDP Party Assembly gathered and discussed Öcalan’s letter and the BDP’s Central Executive Board will respond to Öcalan’s letter before deciding whether or not to reveal its content.

According to sources, Öcalan lays out certain conditions for the PKK’s disarmament in his letter. Certain legal assurances should be provided for the PKK’s withdrawal from Turkey and the withdrawal can be completed by the end of August, Öcalan was quoted by sources as saying.

For disarmament of the PKK, according to Öcalan, Turkey needs to strengthen local administrations by removing its reservations on the Council of Europe’s European Charter of Local Self-Government.

The definition of a neutral citizenship, which will not define anyone as Turkish or Kurdish and establishment of a truth commission in Parliament to examine rights violations, are required conditions for a resolution, Öcalan reportedly wrote. Demirtaş said that Öcalan expects a response to his letter within two weeks.

27.02.2013
SOURCE: MEDIA

 

 

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