Turkey–Iraq collaboration and the Kurdish movement
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The Turkish state, that permanently continues with the operations in Northern Kurdistan and frequently realises air raids on South Kurdistan targeting to break the Kurdish resistance, will not achieve anything from its policy of persistence despite developing its collaboration with Iraq. 

 01 August 2008 / International Bulletin / No: 72

On July 10 Turkey's prime minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Iraq. At this visit, which was the first one by a Turkish prime minister in 18 years, Tayyip Erdogan met with the Iraqi prime minister Nuri El Maliki and the Iraqi president Celal Talabani. Subjects of the visit were the PKK , Kirkuk and the economical collaboration, at the same time the ministers signed an agreement on strategical collaboration.
When Erdogan met with the Iraqi prime minister Celal Talabani, he urged him to itensify the collaboration with the Kurds in South Kurdistan against the PKK. Talabani, who had made statements against the PKK before and after the visit and who had called on the PKK to stop its armed struggle as otherwise they would have to leave South Kurdistan, showed the importance he is giving to the collaboration with the USA and Turkey. KCK Executive Council chairman Murat Karayilan expressed his rage about Talabani's statement and said: "We have not occupied anyone's country. We live on our own soil, in the country of our ancestors." He declared that Talabani's speech will not affect their own struggle at all.
Erdogan's visit in Iraq was a step that had been planned already last year during the meeting of Erdogan and Bush on November 5 as well as directed by the National Security Council's meeting. The aim was to liquidate the PKK and to create the collaboration with the Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government. Erdogan, who declared that "the PKK is our common enemy" and by this, followed the line of Bush, said that the PKK is the enemy of both the two countries and that both countries will profite from the annihilation of the PKK. This shows once again the persistence on the Kurdish hostility and the annihilation and denial policy. According to the Supreme Council for Strategic Collaboration signed by him and the central leadership of Iraq, the target is to create mechanisms in order to realise some projects between the two countries. Other agreements were made on having Turkish companies a statek in the porduction of oil the Iraqi petrol and natural gas and for increasing the capacity of the Yumurtalik oil pipeline.
The Turkish state, that permanently continues with the operations in Northern Kurdistan and frequently realises air raids on South Kurdistan targeting to break the Kurdish resistance, will not achieve anything from its policy of persistence despite developing its collaboration with Iraq.
As shown in the example every year of the meeting of the Fethullahci Abant Platformu, or the political islamists who gather from time to time and make bourgeois liberal "solutions" that are not welcomed by the Kurdish people, they do not achieve anything. Or like the efforts of Erdogan who tries to make the Kurdish people be in favour of the state by his economical packages who have all be in vain.
With its successful war tactics, the Kurdish national movement makes all attacks of the Turkish state ineffective, gives losses to the state by making counter-attacks, and has the moral and psychological superiority.
The Turkish army, that in February crossing the border and realised land operations in the Zap area, was fight off by the HPG guerrillas. This gave the Kurdish people power and made them be in a good mood so that the people showed themselves in the last months more on the streets.
The marches on March 8 to the march on Newroz, from the Mayday marches to the march until Kato Mountain, all marches continue with the participation of the masses as part of the changeover to the second part of the Edi Bese offenisive.
The second step of the Edi Bese offensive continues with the campaign called "Mister Ocalan". The Kurdish people protest in masses against the Turkish state considering the title "Mister Ocalan" as a crime and therefore attacking the Kurds, starting trials and convicting Kurdish people. From Amed to Istanbul, the Kurdish masses went on the streets and handed in mass petitions to the public prosecutor indicating that they will continue to say "Mister Ocalan". The campaign which has been joined so far by 10,000s of people handing in mass petitions for "Mister Ocalan" has also been supported by the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed. The "Mister Ocalan" campaign of the Kurdish people consists of the defence of Ocalan who has been behind bars in isolation at Imrali Isle as well as of the KCK's decision to go over to the realise the second part of Edi Bese. The "Mister Ocalan" campaign is a campaign to defend and make accept the political will and political representatives of the Kurdish masses. With the interest and participation the Kurdish people showed towards the campaign, they have once more shown that they will act all together like a union.


 

 

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The Turkish state, that permanently continues with the operations in Northern Kurdistan and frequently realises air raids on South Kurdistan targeting to break the Kurdish resistance, will not achieve anything from its policy of persistence despite developing its collaboration with Iraq. 

 01 August 2008 / International Bulletin / No: 72

On July 10 Turkey's prime minister Tayyip Erdogan visited Iraq. At this visit, which was the first one by a Turkish prime minister in 18 years, Tayyip Erdogan met with the Iraqi prime minister Nuri El Maliki and the Iraqi president Celal Talabani. Subjects of the visit were the PKK , Kirkuk and the economical collaboration, at the same time the ministers signed an agreement on strategical collaboration.
When Erdogan met with the Iraqi prime minister Celal Talabani, he urged him to itensify the collaboration with the Kurds in South Kurdistan against the PKK. Talabani, who had made statements against the PKK before and after the visit and who had called on the PKK to stop its armed struggle as otherwise they would have to leave South Kurdistan, showed the importance he is giving to the collaboration with the USA and Turkey. KCK Executive Council chairman Murat Karayilan expressed his rage about Talabani's statement and said: "We have not occupied anyone's country. We live on our own soil, in the country of our ancestors." He declared that Talabani's speech will not affect their own struggle at all.
Erdogan's visit in Iraq was a step that had been planned already last year during the meeting of Erdogan and Bush on November 5 as well as directed by the National Security Council's meeting. The aim was to liquidate the PKK and to create the collaboration with the Iraqi and Kurdish Regional Government. Erdogan, who declared that "the PKK is our common enemy" and by this, followed the line of Bush, said that the PKK is the enemy of both the two countries and that both countries will profite from the annihilation of the PKK. This shows once again the persistence on the Kurdish hostility and the annihilation and denial policy. According to the Supreme Council for Strategic Collaboration signed by him and the central leadership of Iraq, the target is to create mechanisms in order to realise some projects between the two countries. Other agreements were made on having Turkish companies a statek in the porduction of oil the Iraqi petrol and natural gas and for increasing the capacity of the Yumurtalik oil pipeline.
The Turkish state, that permanently continues with the operations in Northern Kurdistan and frequently realises air raids on South Kurdistan targeting to break the Kurdish resistance, will not achieve anything from its policy of persistence despite developing its collaboration with Iraq.
As shown in the example every year of the meeting of the Fethullahci Abant Platformu, or the political islamists who gather from time to time and make bourgeois liberal "solutions" that are not welcomed by the Kurdish people, they do not achieve anything. Or like the efforts of Erdogan who tries to make the Kurdish people be in favour of the state by his economical packages who have all be in vain.
With its successful war tactics, the Kurdish national movement makes all attacks of the Turkish state ineffective, gives losses to the state by making counter-attacks, and has the moral and psychological superiority.
The Turkish army, that in February crossing the border and realised land operations in the Zap area, was fight off by the HPG guerrillas. This gave the Kurdish people power and made them be in a good mood so that the people showed themselves in the last months more on the streets.
The marches on March 8 to the march on Newroz, from the Mayday marches to the march until Kato Mountain, all marches continue with the participation of the masses as part of the changeover to the second part of the Edi Bese offenisive.
The second step of the Edi Bese offensive continues with the campaign called "Mister Ocalan". The Kurdish people protest in masses against the Turkish state considering the title "Mister Ocalan" as a crime and therefore attacking the Kurds, starting trials and convicting Kurdish people. From Amed to Istanbul, the Kurdish masses went on the streets and handed in mass petitions to the public prosecutor indicating that they will continue to say "Mister Ocalan". The campaign which has been joined so far by 10,000s of people handing in mass petitions for "Mister Ocalan" has also been supported by the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed. The "Mister Ocalan" campaign of the Kurdish people consists of the defence of Ocalan who has been behind bars in isolation at Imrali Isle as well as of the KCK's decision to go over to the realise the second part of Edi Bese. The "Mister Ocalan" campaign is a campaign to defend and make accept the political will and political representatives of the Kurdish masses. With the interest and participation the Kurdish people showed towards the campaign, they have once more shown that they will act all together like a union.