EGN NEWS DESK
Bahçeli has constantly styled himself the PKK’s sworn enemy, and his provide got here as a shock.
But the imprisoned chief seems keen to work with Bahçeli and Erdoğan, in response to an announcement on Sunday by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, following a go to to Öcalan the day earlier than.
“I possess the mandatory competence and dedication to contribute positively to the brand new paradigm supported by Mr. Bahçeli and Mr. Erdoğan,” the DEM Party assertion quotes Öcalan as saying. “I’m able to take the mandatory constructive steps and make the required name.”
Erdoğan has signaled his consciousness of Bahçeli’s transfer, saying in a televised speech on Wednesday: “We hope this distinctive window of alternative that the ruling coalition is providing to finish the phobia is not going to be sacrificed to private agendas.”
Öcalan added in his reported assertion that “current incidents” in Gaza and Syria had proven that the “decision of this problem … can not be postponed.” Syrian President Bashar Assad was just lately ousted from the nation after years of brutal authoritarian rule.
Highlighting the volatility that surrounds Turkey and the Kurds, 5 individuals have been killed in an assault on the Turkish Aerospace Industries headquarters in Ankara only a day after Bahçeli’s remarks in October.
The Turkish inside minister mentioned on the time it was “extremely probably” the perpetrators have been members of the PKK, which is classed as a terrorist group by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU.
