Abdullah Öcalan

No doubt, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has an absolutely legitimate point when he says that the Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) is a terrorist organization. His complaint is also perfectly legitimate that a pro-Kurdish political party with parliamentary seats equal to that of a nationalist Turkish party meticulously refrains from saying what the PKK is.

Selahattin Demirta?, the co-chairman of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), is nowadays the focus of a denouncment campaign by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government.

?Profiterole for the Kurds?? (this column, Sept. 10, 2009) recalled the early days of Kudistan Workers? Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan?s 1998-1999 odyssey, when a group of Kurds launched a hunger strike in Klafthmonos Square in Athens in protest of his arrest in Rome.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has accused the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) of exchanging efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue for surpassing the election threshold in the June 7 polls, adding the Kurdish issue-focused party was twisting the views of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK). 

The government?s refusal to provide legal guarantees for the PKK?s withdrawal, coupled with the construction of military fortresses, effectively ended the cease-fire in Turkey, HDP co-chair says The resolution process started with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers?

The government?s refusal to provide legal guarantees for the PKK?s withdrawal, coupled with the construction of military fortresses, effectively ended the cease-fire in Turkey, HDP co-chair says The resolution process started with Kurdistan Workers?

One of the sharp qualities of Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an in politics is his ability to reduce every complicated problem into one known equation and try to solve that as it is.

This might be a simplistic approach to politics in today?s world, but it has worked for him during his 20-plus years in politics.

How could weapons be drawn so quickly? How could death traps be set so quickly? How could those spiteful attacks be organized against the police and the military so quickly? Could it be any quicker, I wonder, to give out orders to ?attack, burn and destroy?? 

A senior governmental official has denied reports suggesting that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had knowledge of the content of a key meeting about the peace process even as another participant in the gathering confirmed that Erdo?an even attended the event in question.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has called on the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) to do its share for the ongoing violent acts in Turkey?s southeastern provinces, implying the HDP has ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and acts as a parliamentary extension of the PKK.