The Co-Presidency of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council released a statement on the murder of a Kurdish patriot in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The victim, Huseyin Türeli, who had fled Turkey for political reasons, was shot dead in Duhok on Monday evening.

The KCK statement released on Wednesday includes the following:

“Hüseyin Türeli, a patriot from Batman, has recently died as a result of an armed attack in Dohuk. Many patriotic organizations have strongly condemned this attack and expressed their protest. According to the available information, Hüseyin Türeli, like many patriots from North Kurdistan [East Turkey], had moved to South Kurdistan [North Iraq] for political reasons before being murdered in the recent attack.

Hüseyin Türeli had been attacked before in Dohuk. The fact that he was now attacked for the second time and the manner in which the attack took place shows that the Turkish state and MIT [Turkish secret service] made a definite decision to assassinate Hüseyin Türeli and that this attack was carried out with the support of the Parastin [KDP secret service]. In all the assassinations and massacres carried out by the MIT in South Kurdistan, Parastin’s cooperation and support are clearly visible. The fact that no measures had been taken although it was well-known that Hüseyin Türeli was a target of the Turkish state and MIT and that he was murdered during this second attack reveals this fact. The KDP has never protested in any way against these attacks. The Parastin detains and threatens patriots who cross into South Kurdistan for political reasons, offers them to become spies, and makes it clear to them that they will not be able to survive if they do not give up their patriotism and if they don’t cooperate with the Turkish state. Due to its collaborative attitude with the Turkish state, the KDP treats the patriots who flee the persecution of the AKP-MHP and settle in South Kurdistan in such a way, and collaborates and supports the targeting of them by the MIT. If it were not for the support of the KDP and Parastin, the MIT would not be able to set foot in South Kurdistan, nor would it be able to murder patriots in the cities in public and in the presence of hundreds of cameras and then simply disappear.

The KDP supports the Kurdish genocide policy of the Turkish state everywhere, not only the massacring of patriots in the cities. It has sided with the Turkish state in the occupation of South Kurdistan and in the war against the guerrilla forces in the Medya Defense Zones. The KDP has also supported the attacks in Şengal and Mexmur, and sided with the gangs in Afrin, Serêkani and Girê Spi. The demography of occupied Afrin has been changed. Kurds have been expelled from there and the few remaining Kurds live under the threat of torture and massacre and are subjected to attacks every day. At the same time, the KDP opens official institutions in Afrin under the name of charity. How is this possible? Isn’t this a partnership with the invaders and those who carry out the Kurdish genocide? Undoubtedly, the public and the Kurdish people see and know where the KDP stands and what it does.

In North Kurdistan, the KDP is currently working for the victory of the AKP-MHP and the contra groups who are the hitmen of the genocidal colonialist Turkish state. In order to achieve this, the KDP has been meeting with certain people from North Kurdistan and has asked them to support the AKP-MHP and the anti-Kurdish fascist chief Tayyip Erdoğan in the elections. With the help of its media, it openly demonstrates this support, putting on television those who have massacred thousands of Kurdish patriots. These activities of the KDP are well known and monitored by the patriotic people of Kurdistan.

We would like to hereby condemn the attack on Hüseyin Türeli. This attack, like all previous attacks, was carried out by MIT with the support of the Parastin. The aim of these attacks is to intimidate Kurdish patriots. The patriotic people of Kurdistan and all democratic-patriotic organizations need to stand up for Hüseyin Türeli and express their protest more strongly against those who carried out the attack and those who collaborate with them.”