Turkish kurds careful for the way to peace after the PKK declares a truce

Diyarbakir, Turkey – Important Fire interruption statement On Saturday, the mixture of emotions in southeastern Turkish and northern Iraq mixed, where people wore a Grun’s 40-year conflict between Kurdish militants and Turkish states.

The announcement of the break of the militants could mark significant reinforcement to the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Government, two days after their closed leader called on a group to disarm.

On the streets of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkish Kurdish most southeast, some of those who have lost cousins ​​fighting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, were careful that they placed their religations in the Turkish government. Turkey is not yet detailed responsibility on the announcement of the PKK truce.

“We don’t believe the same things, nothing was changed. Twelve years ago, peace, peace, peace. Then there was a truce, and then we had seen what happened,” said Turankan Duman, 56, referring to a Previous peace process It spoiled in 2015. years.

She said that her son currently serves a 12-year-old prison sentence in PKK membership. Was in prison after crossing the Syrian border for fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic state group on Kobani At the end of 2014. years.

Duman also lost two brothers who were killed against Turkish security forces in mid-2010. in the vicinity of ears, north of Diyarbakir where the PKK was founded in 1978. years.

Kiymet Soresoglu, who loves Duman part of the Majko Mir Association, also expressed doubt in government intentions. “Of course we want peace to be established. We are afraid because they make plans or (can) play a trick,” she said.

Soresoglu, 55, also has a son serving a prison deadline for a member of the PKK, which is considered a terrorist organization of Turkey and its western federations.

Wounded in Fights in the center of Diyarbakira Sur The quart when previously broke 10 years ago broke 10 years ago. “There was no inch land left in Kurdistan in Kurdistan in which the martyr’s blood was spilled,” she said.

“If we tell us to pass weapons without expecting anything in return, we, guerrilla and mother martyrs, we will not accept it. We would be you who would take the weapons of our children and continued fighting.”

Sitting with his friend, Duman added, “But we want peace. Peace so that no blood is released, it’s a sin.”

Since PKK has launched its armed campaign against Turkish state in 1984. years, tens of thousands died. Accurate victims are difficult to calculate, but the International Crisis Group says that 7,152 was killed, because it was struggled on July 2015, including 646 civilians, 1,494 security forces and 4,786 militants.

Saturday Announcement of the break of the fire was the pointed two days of a previously closed PKK leader Call Abdullah Ocalana that the group disarms and dissolve.

Vahap Coskon, Law on Diyarbakirski Diyarbakirski university, said that it pointed out how much PKK is the leadership with northern Iraq was in steps with Ocalan despite his 25 years behind the bars.

“Very high threshold is crossed in terms of disarmament,” he said, adding that the PKK would quickly move that Congress would not dissolve.

“Unlike the last process of solutions, this solution procedure is handled with the highest time of time using time,” Coskun added.

Through the mountain Iraqi border, which was seen by PKK rebels in Turkey on the stage, Kurds in Sulaymaniyah greeted the ceasefire with hopefully.

The najdar Bahaadin described as a “historical moment” different from previous peace banks.

“It’s not like previous experiments in which the PKK stopped the war several times and asked for peace, but (Turkish President Recep Tayyip) Erdogan and Turkey’s policy were not convinced,” he said. “They seem to have now reached that conviction.”

Sulaymaniyah, in the semi-kurdish Kurdish language in the north of Iraq, is a city that is the seat of the PKK in the mountains of Qandil and supporting the Group for many locals.

Awat Rashid questioned whether the EAST pressures were his kidnappers to make a peace offer.

“That Mr. Ocalan was in the Qandil Mountains, on top of his liver for lead, would this peaceful decide? This is a question that should be asked,” he said. “To what extent do you think that is reliable and can be trusted?”

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Ahmad contributed from Sulaymaniyah, Iraq