Diyarbakir, Türkiye – A transcendental Fire statement On Saturday he stirred a mixture of emotions in southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq, where people took the worst part of the 40 -year conflict between the Kurdish militants and the Turkish state.
The announcement of Alto the Fire of the militants could mark a significant impulse for the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Government, two days after its imprisoned leader asked that the disarmament group.
In the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in the southeast of the majority of Turkey, some of those who had lost relatives fighting on the side of the Kurdistan workers’ party, or PKK, distrustful of placing their faith in the Turkish government. Türkiye has not yet made a detailed response to the announcement of High Fire of the PKK.
“We do not trust them, they said the same before, nothing has changed. Twelve years ago peace, peace, peace said. Then there was a stop the fire and then we saw what happened, ”said Turkan Duman, 56, referring to a PREVIOUS PEACE PROCESS That broke in 2015.
She said her son is currently serving a 12 -year prison sentence for PKK’s membership. He was imprisoned after crossing the Syrian border to fight with the Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Kobani At the end of 2014.
Duman also lost two brothers who died fighting the Turkish security forces in the mid -2010 near Piojos, a city north of Diyarbakir, where the PKK was founded in 1978.
Kiymet Suesoglu, which as Duman is part of the Association of Mothers of La Paz, also expressed doubts about government intentions. “Of course we want to establish peace. We are afraid because they make plans or (they could) play a trick, ”he said.
Soresoglu, 55, also has a son who is serving a prison for being a member of the PKK, who is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey and his Western allies.
He was injured in fighting in Diyarbakir center District when the high the previous fire broke 10 years ago. “There is not a single inch of land in Kurdistan, where the blood of the martyrs has not shed,” he said.
“If we tell us that we leave our weapons without expecting anything in return, we, the guerrillas and mothers of the martyrs, we will not accept this. We would be the ones who would take the weapons of our children and continue the fight. ”
Sitting with her friend, Duman added: “But we want peace. Peace so that no more blood is melt, it is a sin. “
Since the PKK launched its armed campaign against the Turkish state in 1984, tens of thousands have died. The exact casualties are difficult to calculate, but the international crisis group says that 7,152 have been killed since the fighting resumed in July 2015, including 646 civilians, 1,494 members of the security forces and 4,786 PKK militants.
The announcement of Alto El Fuego on Saturday was preceded two days before by the imprisoned PKK leader ABDULLAH OCALAN CALL For the group to disarm and dissolve.
Vahap Coskun, a law professor at Dict de Diyarbakir University, said this indicated how closely was PKK’s leadership based in Northern Iraq with Ocalan despite his 25 years after bars.
“A very high threshold has crossed in terms of disarmament,” he said, added that he expected the PKK to move quickly so that a congress dissolves.
“Unlike the last solution process, this solution process is being handled with maximum sensitivity with respect to the use of time,” Coskun added.
On the other side of the Iraqi border mountain, which for years saw the insurgents of Pkk fall into Türkiye for attacks, Kurds in Sulaymaniyah welcomed the high fire with hopeful expectations.
Najmadin Bahaadin described him as a “historical moment” different from the previous peace agreements.
“It’s not like the previous experiments in which the PKK stopped the war several times and demanded peace, but (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan and Turkish politics were not convinced,” he said. “It seems that both came to this conviction now.”
Sulaymaniyah, in the semi -autonomous Kurda region of Northern Iraq, is the city closest to the PKK headquarters in the Qandil mountains and many locals support the group.
Awat Rashid questioned whether his captors had pressed Ocalan to make the peace offer.
“If Mr. Ocalan were in the Qandil mountains, in addition to his leadership council, would this peace make? This is the question that should be asked, ”he said. “To what extent do you think this is reliable and can be trusted?”
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