PKK asks for negotiation with KDP

27-5-2014 – BasNews – The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has asked for negotiation with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to settle differences between the two sides.

Tensions between the PKK and Kurdistan Region’s ruling KDP fanned in the last weeks with protests from both sides and slamming each other of betraying Kurds. PKK expelled some pro-KDP party leaders and officials from Syria Kurdistan and the KDP in return shut offices of lines and groups affiliated with the PKK in the region and accused the PKK of smuggling and making rifts in Kurds.

A Turkey parliament PKK-linked Deputy Malkiya Birtane and an accompanying delegation have paid visit to the KDP Ankara office and has demanded negotiation between the two sides to settle differences. “We hope the rifts will end soon and the Kurds apply all their capabilities for cooperation, Birtane told reporters after the meeting. Meanwhile a member of the PKK leading council and a founder of the party Mustafa Karasu asked for negotiation in an article in Ozgur Gundem daily. He wrote some issues have possibly angered the KDP but that does not mean shutting offices of political organizations.