KCK: ‘Support the protests and also be wary of racist agendas’

KT News:

In a statement today the PKK-associated Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) condemned recent police brutality in Turkey and called on the government to meet the protestors’ demands. It also said that the ‘democratic solution process’ it advocates in the peace talks is aimed at the democratisation of not only the Kurdish region, but also the entire Turkish territory.

The KCK Executive Council Presidency said Kurds are supporting the protest movement, “shoulder to shoulder” with Turks, but that all must be wary of the involvement of nationalist and racist forces with agendas of sabotaging the peace process:

“To strengthen the Democratic Solution Process, democratic and workers’ circles must be careful against the nationalist and racist powers that aim to sabotage this process and abuse the reflection of the people.

“The unification of the Kurdish Liberation Movement with the democratic reflection against unfair and anti-democratic practices and fascist repression in Turkey will enable the democratic transformation and lead up the way to significant results. The aim of this unification must be to manifest the democratic will of the people and to impose necessary conditions for a democratic Turkey. In this respect, the duty of the transformative and significant democratic will in Turkey and the Liberation Struggle of Kurdistan is to unite and to fight shoulder to shoulder with an aim to ensure a solution to the Kurdish question and to relieve Turkey of all kinds of repression and violence”.

The KCK also blamed the Turkish army for the skirmishes that occurred recently  in Uludere and Bingöl as PKK guerrillas were making their way to withdraw across the border.