KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Presidency has released a statement calling for massive objection to a controversial amendment to the criminal code granting sweeping powers to the police force, submitted to parliament by the ruling party AKP.

KCK stressed that; “While the anti-terror law has long been expected to be abolished, steps taken to disguise it in a more fascist character stands as a fight declared against the Kurdish people and democracy powers which will bring along further repression and further arrests.”

The Executive Council Presidency of the KCK pointed out that the Turkish state which is responsible for the death of 40 people in Kobanê protests still blames those supporting the Kobanê resistance and those attacked during the solidarity demos. KCK said the Turkish state wanted to cover its own wrongdoing up by putting the blame on others, adding; “During the 12-year-old ruling period, the AKP government has caused the death of dozens of people by imposing a crackdown on democratic protests and marches. However, not a single one of the perpetrators of these murders has been tried or punished. This reality reveals the fact that the AKP government is following a policy of restraint by killing and arresting the society.”

KCK said this policy of the AKP government wasn't something new, reminding of then the PM Erdoğan's words 'whatever needed will be done, whether women or children', which was followed by the murder of nearly 20 Kurds most of whom were children in 2006.

Calling attention to Interior Minister Efkan Ala's remarks vowing 'equal treatment in return' when demonstrations in solidarity with Kobanê first began, the KCK pointed out that following these remarks, dozens of Kurds were killed and hundreds wounded as police, counter and fascist circles attacked the people participating demos.

KCK also pointed out that the Turkish state intended to maintain the policy of cultural genocide and exploitation against Kurds rather than questioning its policies that have led up to these incidents. "The Turkish state has manifested its neofascist sense of ruling by not resolving Turkey's problems, the Kurdish question being in the first place, through democratic political ways but by maintaining its stance of avoiding this sort of matters by means of further repression and arrests. This stance which is grounded on not resolving the problem but taking the society under control through repression and arrests is a continuation of the hundred-years-old state policy in new conditions", the statement underlined.

KCK emphasised that people must resist and not allow any arrests to be implemented by the police and military forces of the Turkish state, and also avoid remaining silent as had happened in the process of the so-called KCK operations. "These arrests are operations of a political genocide aiming to enslave the Kurdish people and to leave them unorganized and weak in willpower. Even a single person mustn't let him/herself be arrested at home, workplace or outside. Each attempt of detention must be responded with resistance which mustn't remain limited with only one province or district but must spread across all Kurdistan and Turkey", KCK stressed.

The statement also noted that "people should go to neither police nor court that are all working in order to suppress the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people", and that all matters in society must be resolved through wise people and the social justice system.

"The Turkish state and government must know that the new amendment means waging a war against Kurds, and that the Kurdish society, democracy powers and the Freedom Movement will resist to it", the statement noted.

Referring to the expansive aerial bombardment the Turkish army has carried out on guerrilla bases two days ago, for the first time after a period of close to 2 years, KCK said this operation also manifested the government's stance in relation with its recent policies.

KCK also denied the Turkish army's and government's remarks that the operation was launched in response to the attack and harassment fire of guerrillas, underlining that these statements were excuses used for preparing the ground for an attack on guerrilla forces.

The KCK ended the statement by emphasizing that "The Turkish state, unless it wants to lead up to a new process of violent conflict, should end the present psychological warfare, desist from enacting such laws and take urgent steps in order for the resolution of the Kurdish question."