NORTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ) MESOP : Erdogan wants scorched earth / END OF ALL TALKS & POSSIBILITIES – APO OECALAN NOW THE ONLY CONTACT-PERSON TO TURKISH GOVERNMENT ?

Erdogan says Turkey will no longer talk with PKK, operations continue

21 Jan 2016 – MESOP – Ankara will no longer engage in contact with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and will instead “liquidate” all PKK militants through ongoing security operations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed.“We know that the only goal of the separatist terror organization is to fulfill the duty it has been tasked with by its master and completing the contract it has been given,” Erdogan said on Jan. 20.

“So in the coming period, neither the separatist terror organization, nor the party under its control, nor other structures will ever be accepted as counterpart. That affair is over,” he added, addressing a large group of neighborhood and village heads (muhtars) at a regular meeting at his presidential palace in Ankara, Hurriyet daily reported.

“Their organization, deputies and municipalities will answer to the judiciary for what they have done. We will put the region back on its feet again, along with our nation. We will sit with our nation and our citizens after our security forces have entirely liquidated terrorists in the region and we will decide what is to be done for a radical solution to this issue. We will implement this,” Erdogan said, referring to Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish-populated southeast, where the security forces have been waging a relentless campaign to crush PKK militants.

The government, state agencies, and military never directly cite the name of the PKK in official statements, instead describing it either as “the separatist terrorist organization” or its members as “terrorists.”A series of judicial investigations have recently been launched against executives of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) frequently accuse of having organic links with the PKK. Erdogan and the government accuse municipalities in southeastern Anatolia of acting as “logistical centers” for the PKK by using public resources to dig ditches and build barricades against security forces. They also often suggest that the PKK works as a “subcontractor” for various shady foreign powers. www.mesop.de