Tuesday, April 5, 2016

PKK supporters could be stripped of citizenship, Erdoğan suggests

Turkey must be resolute in using all measures against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including stripping its supporters of citizenship, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said April 5, while Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has also vowed not to negotiate with the group.

“Perhaps we are dying one by one, but at least we are killing them in their tens, twenties and thirties. This is continuing like that. We have to be resolute in taking all measures to incapacitate supporters of the terror organization, including stripping them of their citizenship. They cannot even be our citizens,” Erdoğan said in an address to lawyers in Ankara for Lawyer’s Day.

Davutoğlu also swiftly followed in the footsteps of Erdoğan, saying nobody should expect their ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to take the PKK as an “interlocutor.”

“Nobody should expect from us to address the terror organization who have arms and blood on their hands as an interlocutor. From now on, we have a single interlocutor; that is our nation and each individual of our nation,” Davutoğlu said April 5.

In recent months, Turkey has been hit by its worst violence in years, after a fragile peace process was shattered in July 2015 following a two-and-a-half-year de facto cease-fire between security forces and PKK militants.

“Those who are currently meeting with the terrorist organization speak of ‘negotiations.’ But there are no issues to be negotiated,” Erdoğan said as recently as April 4...
  [hurriyetdailynews.com]
5/4/16

1 comment:

  1. Der türkische Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan hat vorgeschlagen, Unterstützern der verbotenen Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK) die türkische Staatsbürgerschaft abzuerkennen...

    "Wir müssen alle Maßnahmen treffen, dazu gehört, den Anhängern der terroristischen Organisation (der PKK) die Staatsbürgerschaft abzuerkennen", sagte Erdogan am Dienstag in Ankara. Die türkischen Behörden sind zuletzt verstärkt juristisch gegen Unterstützer der kurdischen Sache vorgegangen, darunter Journalisten, Anwälte und Abgeordnete.

    Gegen die linksliberale, prokurdische Demokratische Partei der Völker (HDP) betreiben Erdogan und seine islamisch-konservative Regierung seit längerem eine Kampagne wegen angeblicher Unterstützung der in der Türkei als Terrororganisation verbotenen PKK. So soll den beiden HDP-Vorsitzenden, Selahattin Demirtas und Figen Yüksekdag, und weiteren Abgeordneten der Partei die parlamentarische Immunität entzogen werden.

    Erdogan verlangt zugleich eine umfassendere Definition "terroristischer Verbrechen", damit Politiker, Intellektuelle und Journalisten belangt werden können. (afp)

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