Abdullah Ocalan said that the recent speeches of the AKP and Prime Minister Erdogan can be taken as a declaration of war against Kurds, while the AK party doesn’t display a will or intention for a solution in the critical process before the elections, reported Democratic Society Congress Co-Chair and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyer Aysel Tugluk following the meeting with Ocalan in Imrali yesterday.

Making a press statement after the meeting with Ocalan which was also attended by the Century’s Law Office lawyers Cemal Demir, Cengiz Cicek and Cemo Tüysüz, DTK Co-Chair Aysel Tugluk said the followings;

“Within the scope of the conversations with state authorities, the expected meeting of these days hasn’t taken place yet but Mr. Ocalan expressed his expectation for a meeting in the coming days. He (Ocalan) noted that he still bears his own responsibility for the solution of the problem constitutionally and within a democratic context. He underlined that the attitude of the state will be determinant henceforwards as he has displayed his views on this issue very clearly and openly so far. He noted that he, basing on his own experiences, had already presented the way for the most realistic solution.

To the question “Has he made a new assessment about June 15?”, Tugluk gave the following answer; “Mr Ocalan remarked that there hasn’t been a meeting recently. He assesses the recent speeches of the AKP and Prime Minister Erdogan as a ‘declaration of war against Kurds’ which he says will lead Turkey into a chaos and crisis. He expressed that AKP's policies are not analytic, while the party’s attitude in the recent period targets Kurds, which is obviously observed in intense arrests. He stated that he doesn’t see a will or intention in the AKP towards a solution.”

Translation: Berna Ozgencil