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Kurdish peace process
Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Gültan Kıs¸anak presented Nelson Mandela’s case as an example for the solution of the Kurdish issue, saying that peace could not be achieved as long as Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was kept isolated on Imrali Island. Kışanak criticized the government’s exclusion of Öcalan from the solution process, adding that they were expecting a method resembling the “Mandela model.” Nelson Mandela, who was kept imprisoned on Robben Island for 27 years, was sent to a farmhouse after negotiations began with the ruling power of that period. .... “If there is a political interlocutor in front of us, whether national or international, as I’ve said before, we can hold talks with them. We have already met with leaders of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil, northern Iraq. I have met them, my ministers have met them because they are politicians that are participating in Iraq’s federal structure,” Erdoğan told reporters “In the public opinion polls I’ve requested, I saw a very positive opinion from our people. The public’s wish is to end this process, whatever it takes,” .... Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) told Turkish security officials that he suspected the Paris killings of the 3 of his organizations militants might be a ‘message’ from those who did not want him to continue his dialogue with the Turkish government for a political solution to Kurdish problem, Turkish official sources told Hürriyet Daily News.
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