Remarking that military and political operations don’t make any contribution in the search for a solution to the Kurdish issue, DTK (Democratic Society Congress) Co-Chair Aysel Tuðluk underlined that negotiations should start again and proper conditions should be created to achieve a positive result and to enable Mr. Öcalan to contribute to the process of negotiations.

Tuðluk pointed out that the new constitution should above all offer Kurds a guarantee with respect to their right to live and improve their language, identity and culture in their own territory. Tuðluk said the followings; “Everyone should know that Kurds refuse to live without a language, identity and status and this imposition means an imposition for the continuation of slavery. Our proposal and desire for a life together has been formulated as a democratic Turkey and Autonomous Kurdistan.”  

Reminding of AKP government’s calls to the governments in North Africa, Libya and Syria to lend an ear to the voice of the people, Tuðluk underlined that; “The AKP government on the other hand tries to suppress the most democratic and universal demands of the Kurdish people with suppression policies and slaughters.”

Tuðluk also called attention to the so-called “KCK” operations and continued as follows; “Over six thousand Kurdish politicians have been put in prisons simply for doing their legal political work. While lawyers, who are an indispensable factors of the right of defense, are also held in prisons, students, journalists, intellectuals and all opposition sectors of the society face the threat of being imprisoned.”

Pointing out that DTK regarded the Kurdish question as the problem of the denial of Kurdish people to use their rights as a nation, Tuðluk noted that the solution to the problem also needed to have a constitutional basis.