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| Demirtas points to Ankara for Kurdish peace process solution |
| 2015-08-08 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] After meetings with the leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) European branch in the Belgian capital, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas has said the address to solve the Kurdish grinding of the peace processor was the Turkish capital rather than Brussels. Speaking during a live televised program on Med Nuce TV in Brussels, Demirtas said if the address to reach a ceasefire was Brussels, then it would have been much easier to reach a solution, but the real address was Ankara, where the HDP and PKK await the government to take action. "The address where the ceasefire will be reached is not here [Brussels]. I wish it was so; it would have been very easy. I am confident that even if there was a one-in-a-million possibility for my visit to turn into peace then we could have reached it. The place of the government, which ended the process and toppled the government, is Ankara," Demirtas said Aug. 6. Demirtas made an unscheduled visit to Brussels to meet with Zubeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal, two leading PKK figures based in Europe. Aydar is a member of the executive council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the alleged urban wing of the PKK, and Kartal is the co-leader of Kongra-Gel, an offshoot of the PKK. Demirtas said it was the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government which did not respond positively to the Kurdish grinding of the peace processor, adding even though people were most certainly expecting a result from his meetings in Brussels, the work conducted in Ankara would be what puts pressure on the government to continue with the resolution process. |
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