Terrorist leader says he won’t intervene
Imprisoned terrorist leader Abdullah Öcalan has said he will Tiffany UK Sale take a backseat in what he perceives as a mediating role between the state and armed groups in the solution process for the Kurdish problem.
The remarks the head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, allegedly made to his lawyers during a scheduled July 27 meeting were released Friday on news portals known to be close to the PKK.
Öcalan allegedly said: “I will probably meet with the delegation [state security officials] one more time. I will tell them my decision. From now on, the two sides [the state and PKK leaders in the Kandil Mountains of northern Iraq] can get along on their own. Under these conditions, I’m out. They can get along or fight amongst themselves. I will not interfere.” The remarks came one day after PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters that the recent increase in terror incidents showed that the terrorist head had lost a portion of his control over the PKK.
“Not everything is in [Öcalan’s] control anymore. Claims of splits and cracks [between him and the PKK leaders in the Kandil Mountains] are not invalid,” Erdoğan said Thursday while traveling back to Turkey from Azerbaijan.
“If they want me to be involved, then I have three conditions: health, security and freedom,” Öcalan reportedly said. “If the two sides [the state and Kandil] agree to this, then I will play my part. But if they can’t ensure these conditions, then I cannot continue any longer.”
“Both sides are handling me. This actually is blackmail. Kandil is using me as a subcontractor. The state uses me as a subcontractor too,” the PKK chief added. “I’m stopping both from using me like a subcontractor. I’m doing it as of today [Wednesday].”
Selahattin Demirtaş, the group chairman of pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, meanwhile said Friday that nobody had the intention to perform surgery on the country’s Tiffany Ring boundaries, and that tax immunity was out of question, responding to Erdoğan’s criticism of his party’s demand for tax exemption as part of its democratic autonomy project.
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