A Turkish opposition party delegation came under the backdrop of peace efforts between Iraq’s semi -formal Kurdish region on Sunday and a restricted Kurdish separatist movement in Turkey.
The equality of the Kurdish people and the Democracy Party along with the two senior officials, or the two senior officials in Turkey, met Sirri Sureya Onder and the delegation led by Pervin Buldan, Masoud Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq-the chief Kurdish in Iraq Party- Irbil Sunday.
Barzani’s office said in a statement that he discussed the “peace process in Turkey” and a Turkish delegation gave a message from Turkish banned Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK imprisoned leader Abdullah Oklan.
The statement states.
The party has long pressed to improve the situations for more democracy in Türkiye and the rights of the Kurdish population of the country and for imprisoned Oklan.
75 -year -old Oklan founded the PKK in 1978, which began an armed rebellion for an autonomous Kurdish kingdom in the south -east of Turkey in 1984, priced at ten thousands of people. The group is considered a terrorist organization by Türkiye and its western colleagues. The Central Iraqi government in Baghdad announced a ban on the group, which maintains bases in North Iraq last year.
In 1999, he was captured and sedition guilty, Oklan is serving life imprisonment on the island of Imalli in Mermarara Sagar.
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has traditionally formed an opposing relationship with the Left party, often replaced his chosen officials on charges of relationships with PKK and with state -appointed officials.
However, this icy relationship began to disintegrate last October, when Erdogan’s coalition partner, far-flung nationalist politician Devlet Bahli suggested that Okalan could be parole, if his group renounces violence and disintegration.
Peace effort comes at a time when Erdogan may require support from the party in Parliament to create a new constitution that may allow him to remain in power for unlimited terms.
The Turkish Constitution does not allow Erdogan, who has been in power since 2003 and later as President, to run to the office again until the initial election is called nothing, which is called anything, which is some -The support of the Kurd Party will be required.
Even when the latest peace effigies are running, Erdogan’s government has widen a rift on the protest, arrested journalists and politicians. Many elected Kurdish mayors have dropped bees out of the office and this Saturday has been replaced with the latest state-appointed officials, when the mayor of the van municipality in Eastern Turkey was removed from his post and he was in the state-apps Was replaced with.
Methil, the conflict is running between Turkish -backed armed groups and Kurdish forces in Northeast Syria.
Turkish Syrian democratic forces, an American -backed military kurdish coalition in Syria, as an extension of PKK. SDF is interacting with the new government in Damascus following the expulsion of the then Syrian President Bashar Assad in a rebel aggressive.
While most of the former rebel groups have agreed to dissolve and integrate in the new Syrian army, SDF has so far refused.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the government rethinks its military presence in Northhasters Syria if the new leaders of that country ended the presence of PKK in the region. Therefore on Saturday, Kurds in the Northeast Syria staged a massive protest to demand Oklan’s release.
