The Turkish army has retained deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq to fighters associated with the Kurdish rebel group PKK in two weeks since the founder of the movement urged its followers to lay their hands and dissolve.
The leadership of PKK, based in the Qandil mountains in the Iraqi region of northern Kurdistan, answered the invitation of Abdullah Freshman’s founder by announcing a single fire March 1, but they said that Turkey had to release Mr. Father’s prison in order to monitor the disarmament of the group, the possibility that Turkish officials did not entertain publicly.
Previous efforts to negotiate a 40-year-old stopping Conflict of Turkey-Pkkwho killed more than 40,000 people failed. This time, Turkish officials publish small information about the state of any conversation. However, the procedure seems to be moving forward, and analysts say Turkey does not discuss its progress to avoid a potential domestic return.
What is PKK?
For more than four decades, Turkey has been fighting an armed rebellion by the Kurdistan Working Party or PKK, a militant group that says he is seeking greater rights for the Kurdish minority of the country.
The group began to fight the Turkish state in the early 1980s, originally seeking independence for the Kurds, believed to make up about 15 percent or more of the Turkish population.
Starting from the mountains in East and South Turkey, PKK fighters attacked Turkish military bases and police station, stimulating sharp government responses. Later, the conflict spread to other parts of the country, with devastating PKK bombing in Turkish cities where many civilians killed.
During the last decade, the Turkish army has directed the forces of PKK from the Majori Kurdish cities in Southeast Turkey, while using unmanned spacecraft to kill her leaders and fighters, interfering with his ability to organize and carry out the attack.
Where are peace negotiations?
Mr. Fatherwater, founder of PKK, has betrayed a PUBLIC CALL TO YOUR fighters on February 27 to lay their weapons and dissolution. He said that the armed struggle should be replaced by peaceful political actions to try to win more rights for Kurds – the largest Turkish ethnic minority.
PKK’s leadership responded to the invitation, proclaiming a unilateral dedication fire. But Turkey did not return.
Last week, a spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Defense, the rear manager of Zeki Akturk, said that the Turkish army “would continue his fight against terrorism with determination and determination until a single terrorist remains.” Turkey believes that all members of PKK are other related groups of “terrorists”.
Rear Admiral Ataturk said Turkey killed 26 “terrorists” in Syria and Iraq in the previous week and almost 1,500 since January.
PKK did not confirm those numbers. But his military wing said last week that in recent days Turkey has performed more than 800 strikes in a group positions in Northern Iraq using combat aircraft, helicopters and artillery.
So far, peace negotiations have not produced a bilateral interruption of fire, and Turkish leaders have vowed to retain military pressure on PKK, which consider Turkey and the United States a terrorist organization.
“Of course, to solve our problems, we prioritize dialogue, reconciliation and conversations,” said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this month. “But if the hand we have extended the pantry in the air or bitten, we will keep an iron fist at any moment.”
What does Turkey want?
Turkish officials described their goal as a one-sided surrender of PKK, it is expected that his fighters will disarm, but there were no public discussions about any concessions offered by the Government in return or potential amnesty for people requested for activity associated with PKK.
“The group realized the fact that it could not achieve anything to terror, that it surpassed its life span and that there was no choice but to melt,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Admiral Ataturk. “PKK and all its related groups should end terrorist activities, break up and surrender their weapons as they lay them unconditionally.”
Mr. Erdogan also said Turkey would continue to use a military force if PKK paused or peaceful negotiations were flooded.
“We will continue our current surgery until the last terrorist is eliminated without leaving any stone at the top of the other and without a head at the top of the shoulder,” he said.
What does PKK want?
PKK and groups related to him have long sought more rights for Turkish Kurds, whose language and culture of the state have been suppressed since Turkey was formed after the First World War, while some schools in Turkey are now offering courses in Kurdish languages, and some broadcasting of the Kurdish languages would receive state licenses, many Kurds would wish for these rights.
Last week, Mustafa Karasa, a senior PKK official, said in a television interview that the group was serious in disarming, but that Turkey had to stop hitting PKK positions. He continued that Mr. Freshman needed more freedom to help the group transition.
“We will understand the transformation that has established the lead, the dissolution of PKK, ending the armed struggle. No one should doubt it, “Mr. Karasa said.” And of course, the state, the government, should do what it takes about democratization without accepting the pronunciation. “
The call of Mr. Father’s father was preceded by talks involving Turkish officials, Mr. Father’s, Iraqi Kurdish leaders and members of the main Turkish pro -Kurdish political party.
Are Kurdish forces in Syria affected?
Mr. Father’s father is also a figure for a militia led by Kurdish, Syrian democratic forces, controlling part of the territory in northeast Syria.
The Turkish government believes that the militia rental of PKKs has made a little different between them. However, the United States consider two groups very different, and they have been linked to the SDF for a decade in the fight against the Jihadists of the Islamic State in Syria.
On Monday is the SDF leader reached an agreement With a temporary Syrian president, Ahmed al-Shara, to integrate the Kurdish force taken into a new Syrian state.
Although Mr. Father’s father did not mention Syria in particular in his call to disarmament, some Syrian Kurdish leaders said that the agreement was falling in accordance with Mr. Fireman’s leadership.
