TO OUR PEOPLES AND THE PUBLIC OPINION / OFFICIAL STATEMENT
THE COPRESIDENCEY OF KCK EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (PKK)
8 June 2014 – The Kurdish Freedom Movement has been in a non-action position for one and a half year. The AKP administration has misused this position as an opportunity for building new military posts, new dams and new roads for military purposes. It attacked the people who were protesting against the building of military posts, killed 2 Kurdish patriots and injured many others. We offer our condolences to our people and the families of the martyrs and wish quick recovery for the wounded.
The AKP administration started building new military posts immediately after the non-conflict situation. They fortified old military posts and built new ones in those areas where it had been impossible to build posts during the clashes. This attitude has de facto ruled out the non-conflict situation. Our resolve for a political and democratic settlement has been abused. They have followed such an opportunistic policy because they have no policies for settling the issue. The withdrawal process was halted because of
such attitudes
People wanted to make the AKP abandon such policies by resisting
against the construction of military posts. The massacre in Lice has
demonstrated the fact that the AKP has no policies for settling the
Kurdish question; quite the contrary, it has decided to suppress
people’s resistance. It became well understood that the B and C plans
of Erdogan have been to break the resolve of the people for a free and
democratic life. The mentality underlying the attacks on the Lice
resistance is the same mentality which conducted political genocide
operations in the aftermath of March 29th local elections in 2009, and
return of the Peace Groups in the same year; each were instances of
the manifestation of people’s resolve for a free life. The Turkish
state will continue to attack the people’s struggle for freedom and
democracy as long as it has not reached the mentality and policies for
settling the Kurdish question. The Lice massacre has once again
revealed this cold fact of the Turkish state.
The 12-years-long policies of the AKP administration has
displayed the fact that, as far as their goals and aims are concerned,
there is no difference between Erdogan and Çiller; the only difference
is the methodology change in their attempts to eliminate the Freedom
Movement. As the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people developed and
the colonialism based on cultural genocide was exposed, the state
changed the approaches and methods of offense against the Kurds. No
doubt, this method change is the result of the no-exit in old methods.
The Kurdish Freedom Movement evaluated this situation and gave a
chance for a democratic and political solution. But the AKP
administration did not give a positive response to these approaches
based on democratic political solution.
It is not a coincidence that the attacks in Lice followed the workshop
in Amed, a measure of psychological war. By organizing this workshop
they have not only tried to create the political legitimacy for
suppressing people’s resistance , but also have attempted to distract
the Kurdish People and democratic circles till the presidential
elections. The aim is of the workshop was to convey such am message to
Kurdish people: “we will do something”; and the aim of the Lice
massacre was to ensure the nationalistic and chauvinistic circles that
the attacks on the Kurdish Freedom Movement will continue. This
special war policy of finessing has been continuing for 12 years. The
Turkish state and AKP will pursue their policies of distraction and
no-settlement unless these special war policies are defeated by
resistance.
The duty falls on the Kurdish people and the democratic circles
to draw a line for these policies which aim at eliminating the
background built up through years of struggle by the peoples of
Turkey. Therefore, democratic circles should come together and
struggle on the basis of a democracy program. Such a struggle will
reveal the anti-democratic and hegemonic face of the AKP, put an end
to the policies aiming at distracting and deceiving the society and
open the way for a real free and democratic life.
We call on all the Kurdish people and democratic circles to embrace
the martyrs of Lice, pursue their struggle until they crown the Lice
people’s resistance Lice with a democratic Turkey and free Kurdistan;
we call on the youth to join the guerrilla in order to strengthen
self-defense against the attacks.
THE COPRESIDENCEY OF KCK EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
8 June 2014