Ocalan: interlocutor still a problem - UPDATE

Ocalan: interlocutor still a problem - UPDATE

Speaking to his lawyers last Wednesday Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan stated that an interlocutor for the solution of the Kurdish question is yet to be found. Referring to the Yemen and Tunisia rebellions, Ocalan said to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), DTK (Democratic society Congress) and Kandil: “You have the sample cases in Yemen, Tunisia. I will not stop you if you are sure of yourselves”. Ocalan said; “We wanted to wait and see till June 15 to give a chance to the dialogue process but the current events are astonishingly obvious. They must give the decision by themselves."

Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan claimed that Turkey and US made a secret agreement on Kurdish issue.

Speaking to his lawyers Ocalan labelled the latest visit of CIA director to Ankara as the most important development in the last few days. Kurdish leader claimed Turkey and US made a secret agreement on Kurdish issue during CIA director's 5-day visit.

Ocalan said according to the new agreement Turkey will support US politics against Iran and Syria and the alliance between Tahran-Damascus and Ankara is undermined by Washington. And US will support Turkey's politics against Kurds in return.

Ocalan insisted that Turkey is preparing for a large scale operation against Kurdish movement and the Turkish government will possibly push the button after the general elections in June. “They can arrest some deputies and politicians like Leyla Zana's” he said referring to Leyla Zana and her friends arrest in 1990s.

Ocalan also claimed that the decision by the High Election Committee aimed to block the Turkish state's negotiations with him.

He said the AKP's politics aims to destroy the Kurdish movement and underlined the fact that the AKP government has no intention to stop the destructive politics against Kurdish people.

Ocalan said that Kurdish people will resist against Turkish repression and gave Tunis and Egypt examples that shows the power of people.

Ocalan called Kurdish guerrillas to avoid any clashes with the Turkish army but he said that Kurdish guerrillas must defend themselves if the army attacks.

Speaking about developments in Syria Ocalan said Kurds must be united against Syrian government and take every chance to create a democratic society.

Ocalan added; “The government is trying to purge the BDP and the PKK with political and military operations and to create a new Kurdish party in cooperation with some collaborationist Kurds. There exists a deep purge which had in fact started long ago through JITEM (Gendarme Intelligence Service) and continues now within the police academy. It is obvious that the negotiations conducted with me here do not have an initiative and cannot get the talks through the AKP. The last situation will become clear till June 15 after a couple of probable negotiations to be made here. I am calling out to the Turkish public; we wanted to reach a conclusion through democratic constitutional solution and did all we could but the respond to us comes with political-military operations and purge.