The People’s Defense Central Headquarters Command announced that they are halting military activity for 24 hours for the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections to be held in Turkey on June 24.

The statements aid: “The KCK Executive Council has decided that our guerrilla forces will not engage in any military activity for 24 hours starting from 19:00 today.”

The People’s Defense Central Headquarters Command statement is as follows:

“The Kurdish issue is a societal matter that awaits solution in Turkey and in the region. It has been proven time and time again that oppression, violence and massacres don’t produce any results in this problem, but actually deepen it. For this reason, Leader Apo has spent great efforts for years to resolve the issue through democratic, peaceful means, and the Dolmabahçe Palace Accord was reached through dialogue for a peaceful, democratic solution. But Erdoğan and his entourage saw that this would democratize Turkey, and that would threaten their calculations for the individualist fascist dictatorship, so they turned the table for dialogue over and officially declared war against the Kurdistan Freedom Movement on July 24, 2015.

"TURKEY IS UNGOVERNABLE"

The AKP-MHP alliance has failed to achieve any success in the war in the last 3 years, and they haven’t been able to force the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle Forces and its Leader to take a single step backwards. In this relentless war, the forces of the struggle for freedom have stood tall, while the “Collapse Plan” aimed at by the fascist regime failed to take hold and a great resistance strengthened the foundation of opposition to this regime throughout Turkey. The fascist regime has covered up the truth through a strong hold on the media despite their failures, but has since become unable to govern the country in the military, political and financial ways as they falter against our struggle.

Erdoğan decided to hold a snap election to prevent the collapse of his own government and aimed to make the fascist dictatorial system permanent to cover up his crimes against our peoples and to hide his theft and pillaging. It is obvious that the peoples of Kurdistan and the working class peoples of Turkey, who have suffered greatest tyranny and faced great injustice under fascist oppression, will respond in kind to the sinister fascist tendency Erdoğan wants to grow. It is a well established fact that the AKP regime will resort to various deceits and intrigue against the peoples, the working classes and all oppressed groups asserting their will through elections.

“NO MILITARY ACTIVITY FOR 24 HOURS”

Against these attempts, the KCK Executive Council has decided to halt any and all military activity by our guerrilla forces for 24 hours starting from 19:00 to avoid giving an excuse to their deceit, intrigue and provocations and to develop our people’s opportunity to comfortably manifest their will. Our forces will also take care not to be present in the areas the people will be voting in during the same period of time, and will avoid any activity.

We respectfully declare to our people and the public.”