BDP call to government to take steps to advance peace
BDP call to government to take steps to advance peace
Thousands of people on Sunday took to the streets again in Yuksekova and Batman to ask the end of the military operations.
Speaking at a meeting in Yuksekova co-chair BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Selahattin Demirtaþ said: “We have closed the road to death, we are here to open the road to peace. We are calling out to the government. Send a peace committee to Kandil, not war planes. As BDP, we are ready to go to Kandil for permanent peace.”
Demirtaþ added: “The government is transferring million of dollars for war while it doesn’t even provide the coal miners with gas masks which cost only 35 Turkish liras and watch them dying.”
Again the BDP co-chair addressed the government saying: “As long as there is no peace in this country, people will be dying due to lack of gas masks. I am seriously calling out to the Prime Minister and the government. Send a peace committee to Kandil, not war planes. As BDP, we are ready to go to Kandil for permanent peace. If the Prime Minister insists on war, he will end up under it. For 11 years Mr. Öcalan have been working towards peace: his efforts must be responded to. Unless the Prime Minister stops this war and takes steps to advance peace, his party will disappear like the CHP (Republican People’s Party) before it. CHP which had been saying “There is not a Kurdish problem”. Then, Erdoðan will also retire and have a holiday in Antalya, like the Ex-president of CHP, Deniz Baykal. We are calling out to Erdoðan, Barzani and Ahmadinejad, heads of three countries with share borders. Let’s stop this blood together.”
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
Speaking at a meeting in Yuksekova co-chair BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Selahattin Demirtaþ said: “We have closed the road to death, we are here to open the road to peace. We are calling out to the government. Send a peace committee to Kandil, not war planes. As BDP, we are ready to go to Kandil for permanent peace.”
Demirtaþ added: “The government is transferring million of dollars for war while it doesn’t even provide the coal miners with gas masks which cost only 35 Turkish liras and watch them dying.”
Again the BDP co-chair addressed the government saying: “As long as there is no peace in this country, people will be dying due to lack of gas masks. I am seriously calling out to the Prime Minister and the government. Send a peace committee to Kandil, not war planes. As BDP, we are ready to go to Kandil for permanent peace. If the Prime Minister insists on war, he will end up under it. For 11 years Mr. Öcalan have been working towards peace: his efforts must be responded to. Unless the Prime Minister stops this war and takes steps to advance peace, his party will disappear like the CHP (Republican People’s Party) before it. CHP which had been saying “There is not a Kurdish problem”. Then, Erdoðan will also retire and have a holiday in Antalya, like the Ex-president of CHP, Deniz Baykal. We are calling out to Erdoðan, Barzani and Ahmadinejad, heads of three countries with share borders. Let’s stop this blood together.”
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
