Ali Avni, member of the Central Committee of the Barzani-dominated KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) in South Kurdistan, openly called on the Turkish state to murder leading PKK members during a recent TV appearance on a Barzani family channel. Elî Ewnî explained that the Turkish army and MIT are capable of targeting people with drones and questioned why the PKK leadership is not being eliminated with drones.

Avni said: “I say it to the leaders of the Turkish state. You can use drones, the airway and by means of the Internet to locate the members of the PKK in the tens of thousands of cars going to Ahmedawa and bomb them. Don't you know the leaders and vanguards of the PKK who come and go to Turkey through Ranya, Derbindaxan, Qeladizê and Bradost?" 

The Democratic Kurdish Community Council in the Netherlands (DEM-NED) released a statement denouncing the KDP’s course of betrayal and to align itself with the Kurdistan Freedom Movement.

The statement on Friday said: “The increasing talks between the Turkish state and the KDP in recent days signal an imminent process of aggression. A people and their representatives defend their land in the first place, and resist the invaders. The KDP officials, however, pay attention to their wallets instead of their consciences, saying nothing against the occupation of their land and deployment of the colonialists and fighting the Kurdistan Freedom Movement.

As patriots from Kurdistan, we call upon the KDP to stop walking on the path of betrayal and to align itself with the Kurdistan Freedom Movement that has been fighting to liberate their country from the colonialists.

Our place in the pages of history will be determined according to our actions, not our intentions.”