MESOP FOCUS : IS PK GOING TO START A NEW KURDISH CIVIL WAR ?

PKK Provides Turkey with Pretext to Shell Kurdistan: MP  – Another lawmaker warns PKK endeavors for civil war in Sinjar

  Leyla Hemid – BasNews – 28 Dec 2016 – ERBIL — Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is creating “big issues” for the Kurdistan Region, providing Turkey with the pretext to shell Kurdistan’s borders as it also intends to stage a civil war by refusing to leave the Kurdistan borders, Kurdish lawmaker said on Tuesday.
Speaking to BasNews, Mardan Khidir, an MP to the Kurdistan Parliament, said that PKK has “occupied tens of villages” within the Kurdistan Region borders and now intends to expand its region.

Khidir added that the pro-Kurdish party has established military checkpoints and collects taxes from the passengers.
Apart from creating issues for the town of Sinjar in Nineveh province, PKK does not allow civil and charity organizations to reach the villages and assist the villagers, the Kurdish lawmaker said, adding that even the government cannot access these villages.
Khidir also believes the PKK’s existence, which has given Turkey the pretext to shell Kurdistan, should end.
Commenting on the same subject, another Kurdish MP to the Iraqi House of Representatives told BasNews that PKK does not belong to the Kurdistan Region.
The PKK is originally a party from Turkey, which took arms against the Turkish government in 1974 for the ethnic rights of millions of Kurds in the country. It has expanded into some branches with different names in Syria, Iran and Iraq.
Majid Shingali believes that “PKK intends to occupy the Kurdistan Region” because the party overlooks the calls by the US, Europe, the civil society organizations and the Kurdistan Regional Government(KRG) to vacate Sinjar.
Shingali warned that “PKK cannot behave this way and we notify the party to leave Sinjar as what they can do in Western Kurdistan [Kurdish areas in Syria] they cannot do here [Kurdistan] because here has its owner, parliament, government and security institutions.”

He described the party’s moves in Sinjar as “useless.”
The Yezidi lawmaker also believes that the only solution for the current tensions created by PKK’s existence in Sinjar can be achieved when the party agrees to leave Sinjar.Earlier KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani warned that they may resort to any option, including military ones, to force the PKK leave Sinjar.

The People’s Protection Units (HPG), the military PKK-affiliated wing responded to Kurdistan PM by saying that they refuse to leave the Yezidi town.
According to recent reports BasNews has conducted, PKK, fearing the Turkish army’s shelling, has relocated its bases in the camps of the Yezidi IDPs from Sinjar on Sinjar Mount and thus “endangering” the Kurdish IDPs. The Party which contributed to the efforts to free Sinjar from the Islamic State (IS) militants now demands administration of the town to be handed over to them while, with the support from the Iraqi government, it is making its foothold stronger in Sinjar. www.mesop.de