MESOP NEWS : “THIS IS WHERE WORDS END …… “ MURAT KARAYILAN VOWS EXTENSIVE WAR AGAINST TURKEY – PKK to Intensify Battle Against Turkey After Arrest of HDP MPs
5 Nov 2016 – Murat Karayilan, one of the leaders of the left-wing Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is based in Turkey and Iraq, said that his organization intends to intensify its battle against the Turkish state.
Karayilan announced this in a video message on Friday, following the arrest of co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and 9 other HDP MPs by the Turkish authorities, with arrest warrants for two more who are currently abroad. Karayilan’s said that for the Kurds it is “extremely important” to respond to these detentions.
“This fascism of the AKP [the ruling Justice and Development Party] in Kurdistan and Turkey will deepen the war. Our movement and our nation will not stand silent in the face of this assault of fascism, and occupation,” he added. The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), which is an umbrella group for the PKK, as well as the Syrian Kuridsh PYD (Democratic Union Party), issued the statement following these arrests. “This is where words end. All the Kurdish people and the forces of democracy should rise up everywhere and resist. The youth, the women and all of the Kurdish people should show the AKP government once more that Kurds cannot be broken,” the KCK stated.