Ocalan Letter Asks Barzani Support in Rojava, Peace Process

By -
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, has asked Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani to back Kurdish autonomy in Syria and the PKK’s peace process with Ankara, the head of Turkey’s largest Kurdish party disclosed.


Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) that brokered the peace deal between Ocalan and Ankara last year, said the appeals come in a letter to Barzani.

“The letter asks Barzani to support the Kurds in Syria and the peace process in Turkey,” Demirtas told MPs from his party on Thursday.

Ties between the Kurdistan Region and the pro-PKK Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has declared unilateral autonomy in Syria’s Kurdish regions (Rojava), have been strained.

The PKK and Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have also been traditional rivals. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil has rejected the declaration of autonomy by the PYD.

Leyla Zana, a Kurdish MP from the city of Diyarbakir in the Turkish parliament, was tasked with hand-delivering the message to Barzani, leading to speculation about its importance and urgency.

“The letter also asks Barzani to criticize the slow progress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the peace process,” Demirtas told the MPs. “We do not see any criticism from Barzani of the AKP. The Kurds in the north (Turkish Kurdistan) expect more support from Barzani,” he said.

Despite disagreements with the PKK over the situation in Rojava, Barzani has maintained good relations with Ankara and the PKK over their peace process.

Demirtas himself is an outspoken critic of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing his AKP party of insincerity about the peace deal. Turkey’s Kurds have been disappointed at the slow pace of the negotiations and accuse Ankara of dragging its feet.

“The best way out of this stalemate is to democratize Turkey,” said Demirtas. “Leaders who face such a crisis either resort to democracy or rule by force,” he added. “The best solution is Ocalan’s initiative.”

Demirtas said that a recent corruption scandal, which has intensified the rivalry between Erdogan’s government and the powerful Gulen movement, is harmful to Turkey and the peace process.

Source http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/310120141

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters

By Explorer -
Image
Massive public protests taking place in Hong Kong over the past week are aimed at a new extradition law, known as the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance , that would see accused criminals extradited to mainland China to face prosecution. Hongkongers feel the law could be used to legalise the kidnapping of people who express views, and act in ways, that are not popular with the Chinese government . The same law could also be used to extradite tourists and visitors to China who are arrested on suspicion of having committed these crimes. Protesters want the bill scrapped. For now, debate of the legislation has been postponed . Organisers say one million people turned out for the protests, while police estimate the number was around 240,000. Either way, it was a significant number of Hong Kong’s 7.5 million population. Commentators on Twitter remarked on how well organised the protesters were. So, how did they do it? Protesters across the world are using n
Read more

‘Not Hospital, Al-Shifa is Hamas Hideout & HQ in Gaza’: Israel Releases ‘Terrorists’ Confessions’ | Exclusive

By Explorer -
 According to a video of interrogation of "Hamas terrorists" released by Israel Security Agency Shin Bet, accessed exclusively by News18, "The Shifa hospital has been made with many considerations as Hamas knew that medical places won’t be attacked by the enemy. Equipment, explosives and other material has been kept there." Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza as covers and have turned them into ammunition depots, according to a video of interrogation of “Hamas terrorists" released by  Israel Security Agency  Shin Bet, accessed exclusively by News18. ALSO READ | Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates  HERE The Israeli military has claimed that those featuring in the video released on Saturday are Hamas terrorists, who participated in the  October 7 attack  on Israel. “Most of the tunnels are hidden in hospitals. There are multiple underground levels. Al-Shifa Hospital is not small, it is a big place that can be used to hide things," a man is seen saying. “The Al-Shifa
Read more

Islam Has Massacred Over 669+ Million Non-Muslims Since 622AD

By Explorer -
Image
In fact, no ideology has been as genocidal as Islam… Islam has killed more than 5 times the number of people killed by communism. In the total numbers we have updated over 80 million Christians killed by Muslims in 500 years in the Balkan states, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia. Then we have India. The official estimate number of Muslim slaughters of Hindus is 80 million. However, Muslim historian Firistha (b. 1570) wrote (in either Tarikh-i Firishta or  the Gulshan-i Ibrahim) that Muslims slaughtered over 400 million Hindus up to the peak of Islamic rule of India, bringing the Hindu population down from 600 mil to 200 million at the time. With these new additions the Muslim genocide of non-Muslims since the birth of Mohammed would be  over 669 million murders. Islam: The Religion of Genocide Perspective:   Think the Spanish inquisition was bad? More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition* combined. The Spanish inquisition ( Tribunal del Sant
Read more