PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan answered Dengê Kurdistan Radio’s questions on the recent developments in Northern Kurdistan.
Eights cities and towns in Northern Kurdistan have been burned and torn down by the AKP government and state which now tries to design these areas through various plans and projects in accordance with its own plans. These include TOKİ buildings and ‘street police’ application under the name of a ‘watchman’ system. How do you evaluate this plan?
We are going through a historic process in Kurdistan. The epic resistance for democratic autonomy, mainly in Sur, Cizre, İdil, Nusaybin, Şırnak, Gever, Silopi and Silvan, has turned a new page in the history of the Kurdish people. Courage and bravery has led up to a history of resistance that revealed the level of self-sacrifice reached by Kurdish youths today. This spirit of resistance manifested by Kurdistan Defense Forces forms the basis of greater steps for victory.
This is the first time an urban warfare has occurred in Northern Kurdistan. This war can be discussed with regards to its positive and negative sides but one thing is clear; it is the demonstration of historic resistance and victory.
The enemy forces that failed to enter the cities and towns in the face of resistance eventually resorted to demolishing these areas on the order of the Turkish President and Chief of Defense to “blow buildings up from a distance to enter the towns and cities”. This is how they managed to get inside. This is a disgrace and loss for the Turkish army which furthermore reflects this defeat as a victory.
This resistance forms the basis of greater steps to be taken during the coming process. The areas of battle house strong patriotism and defense of Kurdish identity and they have been a scene of marks left by the brave martyrs. The Turkish state now wants to remove this mark from these areas..........http://kurdishdailynews.org/2016/06/25/karayilan-we-are-discussing-creation-of-free-kurdistan/
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Eights cities and towns in Northern Kurdistan have been burned and torn down by the AKP government and state which now tries to design these areas through various plans and projects in accordance with its own plans. These include TOKİ buildings and ‘street police’ application under the name of a ‘watchman’ system. How do you evaluate this plan?
We are going through a historic process in Kurdistan. The epic resistance for democratic autonomy, mainly in Sur, Cizre, İdil, Nusaybin, Şırnak, Gever, Silopi and Silvan, has turned a new page in the history of the Kurdish people. Courage and bravery has led up to a history of resistance that revealed the level of self-sacrifice reached by Kurdish youths today. This spirit of resistance manifested by Kurdistan Defense Forces forms the basis of greater steps for victory.
This is the first time an urban warfare has occurred in Northern Kurdistan. This war can be discussed with regards to its positive and negative sides but one thing is clear; it is the demonstration of historic resistance and victory.
The enemy forces that failed to enter the cities and towns in the face of resistance eventually resorted to demolishing these areas on the order of the Turkish President and Chief of Defense to “blow buildings up from a distance to enter the towns and cities”. This is how they managed to get inside. This is a disgrace and loss for the Turkish army which furthermore reflects this defeat as a victory.
This resistance forms the basis of greater steps to be taken during the coming process. The areas of battle house strong patriotism and defense of Kurdish identity and they have been a scene of marks left by the brave martyrs. The Turkish state now wants to remove this mark from these areas..........http://kurdishdailynews.org/2016/06/25/karayilan-we-are-discussing-creation-of-free-kurdistan/
25/6/16
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Iranian security forces have clashed with Kurdish separatists who infiltrated a northwestern village, killing five of them, according to the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guard...
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It said no Iranian forces were wounded in the clashes, and that they confiscated large amounts of weapons and ammunition.
The Kurdish group could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Guard clashed with Kurdish insurgents in West Azerbaijan earlier this month. The Guard said it killed 12 insurgents while three of its members died. The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan said the Kurds killed over a dozen Guard members, including a colonel.
Iran faces threats from several militant groups, ranging from Sunni Arabs in its southern, oil-rich region, Kurds in its northwest and Baluch separatists on its eastern border with Pakistan.
Attacks are rarely publicized in Iran, but last week authorities announced that they had broken up one of the “biggest terrorist plots” ever on Iranian soil by Sunni extremists planning bombings in Tehran and elsewhere.
Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi was later quoted by the semi-official ISNA news agency as saying that 10 suspects had been arrested in connection to the plot, which was to involve 50 bombings in the capital.
A Sunni Arab group claimed an attack on an oil pipeline in southern Iran last week, while Iranian forces battled the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl in the southeast, according to Stratfor, a private intelligence firm based in Austin, Texas.
AP