After Justice and Development Party's (AKP) Central Decision and Execution Committee (MKYK) meeting, Ömer Çelik made statements as to EU Progress Report and İmralı talks.
İmralı committee in its statement yesterday expressing that the process is about to turn into a chaos, yet it is not too late to back down from this situation said Abdullah Öcalan has to be spoken with.
Solution process also known as the Kurdish–Turkish peace process, is an ongoing peace process, which aims to resolve the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. The conflict has been ongoing since 1984 and resulted in some 40,000-100,000 mortal casualties and great economic losses for Turkey as well as high damage to the Kurdish population. Though there was a unilateral cease-fire between 1999 and 2004, the sides failed to gain understanding and the conflict became increasingly violent. The 2013 truce was working until September 2014, when it ended due to spillover of the Syrian Civil War. Source: Wikipedia |
In EU Progress Report declared yesterday said, "Resuming peace process is an emergent necessity".
There is no clash environment
Çelik in response to question as to the EU report said, "We take into consideration the criticisms that aim to move Turkey to an advanced democracy. However, there is an issue in the report. It forms a sentence 'ending clash environment'. That is an extremely wrong way of putting it. There is no clash environment in Turkey. There is an environment of fight against terrorism. That is a legitimate and a strong fight. An expression like 'clash environment' should be not used for a country like Turkey. They may use it for Syria".
Çelik said the following in a response to a question as to peace process:
"The name of the process in Turkey is not peace process. The name was resolution process earlier, now it is national unity and fraternity process. Calling it 'peace process' is not right. It sounds as there are two legitimate sides if called peace process.
"We don't only meet with Kurdish citizens, but people from all circles. All NGOs are addressee. Politicians speaking with İmralı is out of question. If needed, this meeting might be made for the sake of security and interests of the state. HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) tries to reduce the status of being the addressee to itself. All political parties having a word to say and sociological elements are the addressee in this matter".
Çelik also added that a new constitution is necessary to reach its goals by 2023, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu will hold talks with party leader regarding this matter. (NV/TK)
* İmrali island is where PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is imprisoned.
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