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Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has called on the PKK to convene an extraordinary congress to "end the 40-year-long arms struggle" against Turkey.
On Feb. 28, in a historic joint press conference with the government, the HDP announced a call by Öcalan for the PKK to hold a congress in spring to discuss disarmament in Turkey. Öcalan’s statement also contained a call for the PKK to consider a “reinforced ceasefire.”
In return, Öcalan also announced a list of priorities from the government in a 10-article declaration. These articles, referred by Öcalan in his March 21 statement, included the following headings:
- The definition and content of democratic politics;
- The definition of national and local dimensions of a democratic solution;
- Legal and democratic warranties of free citizenship;
- Relations between state and society, and how these issues will be institutionalized;
- Socio-economic dimensions of the resolution process;
- Handling democracy-security ties during the resolution process in a manner that will sustain both public order and freedoms;
- Legal solutions and warranties for policies on women, culture and ecology;
- Developing a pluralist democracy to define the concept of identity;
- Defining the concepts of a democratic republic, a common homeland and a nation with democratic criteria, and granting these a legal and constitutional warranty within a pluralist democratic system;
- Writing a new constitution that aims to internalize all democratic moves and transformations.
calan urges PKK to convene congress to lay down arms - POLITICS
Erdoğan seems to have been throwing a tantrum the last few days.
On Feb. 28, in a historic joint press conference with the government, the HDP announced a call by Öcalan for the PKK to hold a congress in spring to discuss disarmament in Turkey. Öcalan’s statement also contained a call for the PKK to consider a “reinforced ceasefire.”
In return, Öcalan also announced a list of priorities from the government in a 10-article declaration. These articles, referred by Öcalan in his March 21 statement, included the following headings:
- The definition and content of democratic politics;
- The definition of national and local dimensions of a democratic solution;
- Legal and democratic warranties of free citizenship;
- Relations between state and society, and how these issues will be institutionalized;
- Socio-economic dimensions of the resolution process;
- Handling democracy-security ties during the resolution process in a manner that will sustain both public order and freedoms;
- Legal solutions and warranties for policies on women, culture and ecology;
- Developing a pluralist democracy to define the concept of identity;
- Defining the concepts of a democratic republic, a common homeland and a nation with democratic criteria, and granting these a legal and constitutional warranty within a pluralist democratic system;
- Writing a new constitution that aims to internalize all democratic moves and transformations.
calan urges PKK to convene congress to lay down arms - POLITICS
Erdoğan seems to have been throwing a tantrum the last few days.
