Amed Malazgirt, commander of the Central Headquarters of the People's Defense Forces, spoke about the current developments in Turkey.

The interview was broadcast on Stêrk TV. Commander Amed Malazgirt spoke about what the Turkish state has been doing in Kurdistan for years, it is now expanding to Libya and the Mediterranean.

Turkey trains jihadists and meke them fight in Kurdistan, Syria and Libya, explains Malazgirt. After their war missions they receive Turkish IDs and thus an official status. The HPG commander sees this as a serious danger for all of humanity and emphasizes that the Turkish state must now be stopped.

We publish an excerpt from the TV interview.

How do you assess the current political developments in Turkey and Kurdistan?

The policy of the Turkish state in the Middle East is unsuccessful. Turkey wanted to present himself as an essential force in the Middle East and has entered into political competition with the Western states. As it was unsuccessful with this, he put the military side in the foreground. Its legislation is not democratic and it legitimise its dictatorship through law. On this pillar it practices its violence and its military strength. This is not accepted by foreign countries and is the reason for its conflicts with certain states. In order to present these contradictions as a success of its new policy, Turkey puts its military strength in the foreground. It threatens its surroundings and shows its strength. With a few exceptions, there are problems with almost all other countries.

The Turkish state actually wanted to act earlier. At that time, however, it did not have the necessary strength. Turkey wants to achieve its goals with its current policy, but it will not succeed. With the technology capacity it has reached in recent years, it is also encouraged by certain powers. It trusts in outside resources and encouragement and believes that it can rule any place. In order to achieve its political goals, it created extensive organized structures. It creates conflicts between peoples and has thus created the basis for interventions everywhere. Its military forces are intervening all over the region.

There has been military intervention in Kurdistan for years, now the same intervention is taking place in the Mediterranean and in Libya. We predicted that a long time ago. The Turkish state is after the wealth and mineral resources in Kurdistan, now it intervenes in the same way in the Mediterranean Sea and Libya. We didn't say that for nothing. The whole thing continues at the highest level. Many sides are only now realizing how bad intentions the Turkish state has. Its plan was obvious, it has made great preparations and wants to occupy many places. It does this step by step and uses the PKK as a pretext. It also aims at destroying the achievements of other peoples.

When the Kurds outside the PKK wanted to take certain steps they were considered dangerous and overrun in every respect. That has been the case in all parts of Kurdistan. In the north, Kurds are under daily pressure anyway, innocent and politically active people are arrested. Some NATO countries, especially the European countries, just watched out of self-interest as the Turkish state attacked Kurds. This has encouraged the AKP / MHP government to make further attacks. The PKK militants and all peoples influenced by the philosophy of Abdullah Öcalan are resisting this oppression.

There are other developments as well. Under the slogans “Kirkuk belongs to the Turkmens”, the Turkish secret service MIT, and mercenaries organized by it, have been positioned in Kirkuk via the MHP. This is a long-term project for which preparations are being made at the moment. Military bases are being set up on the same level in southern Kurdistan in the direction of Mosul. If the PKK did not resist, the neo-Ottoman dreams would have long since become a reality. What bothers the Turkish state about the PKK is the fact that it hinders its plans and projects. It wants to achieve military success, to become a political force within the international powers, to eliminate the influence of everyone else and to establish itself completely in the Middle East. That is why Turkey intervened in Libya: to occupy this area with ISIS and other jihadists.

Just as the occupation in North Kurdistan is legitimized and enshrined in law, so is it in Libya and the Mediterranean. If you look at the recent tensions with Greece and other countries, you can see that there is an agenda there. It was pretended that forces had been sent and that was brought up for debate. When there were no serious reactions, Turkey really sent its own men. If the opposite side had protested, Turkey would have been softer, if no reaction was shown, then it would act. This is a tactic of the AKP / MHP government. Wherever the Turkish state wants to take up space, no concessions may be made to it. Because when it has occupied a place, it wants to occupy more areas. It wants to become the ruling power in the Middle East. And as it did not get any further with this policy, it decided to take the military route. If it does not get results even on this path, it will experience a collapse. The Turkish state will wipe out its profits with its own hands.

The Turkish Foreign Minister recently promised the Turkmen in particular that anyone could become a Turkish citizen if they wished. What is behind this statement?

We see today that the Turkish state is repeating its own history. The Turkish foreign minister had already said that anyone who considers themselves to be Turks or Turkmen can become citizens. The Turkish state trains jihadists from the Al-Nusra Front and ISIS and made them fight for itself. With this it threatens the whole world. The jihadists are given a new cover. They get an even more official status and are made Turkish citizens. Then Turkey makes them fight and positions them as Turkish citizens on the various territories it occupies to give the occupation a permanent status. The jihadists Ankara is currently using in Libya will later be provided with IDs and naturalized. Most of them are not Turkish soldiers but ISIS jihadists. It's a long-term strategy.

As I said, if the Turkish state is not stopped now, it will become a plague for the whole world. It is making conscious preparations to give the jihadists official status. This is a serious danger to humanity.