Kurdish Freedom Movement Extend Ceasefire in Turkey until 1st September 2009.

The Kurdish political leadership Koma Civaken Kurdistan, (KCK) has announced that the ceasefire called by the Kurdish Freedom Movement to give the opportunity for solving the Kurdish Question in Turkey by political and peaceful means has been extended. It was due to run out today, 14th July having been already extended from the 1st June, but has now been extended to
1st September 2009.

Kurdish rebels extend truce, thousands march for peace
By Mahmut Bozarslan

July 16. 2009

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP) — Separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey said Wednesday they would extend a four-month truce, as thousands of Kurds marched in their main city of Diyarbakir to call for peace.

The unilateral truce, first announced by the rebel Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in March, had been due to expire on Wednesday but will now continue until September 1, the separatists said.

The extension was decided in anticipation of a "roadmap for a democratic solution" which jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is to propose in August, senior PKK commander Murat Karayilan told the pro-Kurdish Firat news agency.

"In order to lay the ground for the roadmap... we have decided to extend the non-action period until September 1," he said. "Within this period, our forces will not take any military action apart from fighting in self-defence that could be forced upon us."

He said the PKK "places great importance on the roadmap and already officially declares that it will stand behind it."

In Diyarbakir, the largest city of the Kurdish-majority southeast, about 25,000 people took to the streets, calling for peace and chanting "Enough is enough," as police enforced tight security measures.

Senior lawmakers from the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), which organised the march, said the 25-year Kurdish conflict should be resolved on the basis of "democratic autonomy," similar to that of Spain's Basque region.

The DTP, they said, would unveil in the coming days proposals for a constitutional reform that would guarantee Kurdish rights.

Demonstrators shouted slogans praising Ocalan and brandished portraits of the rebel chieftain, who has been serving a life sentence for treason on a prison island in northwestern Turkey since 1999.



Karayilan charged that Ankara's declared desire to resolve the conflict lacked "sincerity" and accused the government of seeking to weaken the PKK.

If Ankara "insists on policies of annihilation, I would like to emphasize that our movement is stronger than ever and in a position to defend itself," he said.

Ankara has never formally recognised PKK's unilateral truces and military operations against the rebels have continued.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Turkey and much of the international community, took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed about 44,000 lives.

In May, President Abdullah Gul urged swift measures to end the conflict, stressing that "increasing democratic standards" was the way to resolve it.

His appeal revived debate on how to proceed on he Kurdish issue amid media speculation that the government may consider fresh steps to win over the Kurdish community and encourage the PKK to lay down arms.

Eager to boost its EU membership bid, Ankara has in recent years granted the Kurds a series of cultural freedoms, but failed to draw up a specific strategy to convince the PKK to end its armed struggle.

The government rules out dialogue with the rebels and has rejected calls to consider a general amnesty. Source: AFP

Kurdish Dam Workers Killed On Same Day European Finance Says No to IIisu Dam Project!

One day after the killing of 4 Kurdish Dam workers in Turkey the news comes out that European Finance for the Ilisu Dam is not going to be forthcoming. Do you think someone knew that a couple of days ago in Turkey? A coincidence? Or another 'Deep State' Black Psychological Operations that Turkey is now famous for! In fact, the killings took place on 6th July, THE VERY LAST DAY OF AN EXTENSION FOR TURKEY TO COMPLY WITH THE REQUIRED CRITERA. Again, anyone with any knowledge of 'Deep State' black propaganda knows that dates are always important. Crude psychological warfare that blinds the international press. We can expect a lot more of these psychological provocations by the Turkish Generals as they struggle to retain power.

Here is how the pull out was reported today:

Berlin - Germany, Austria and Switzerland on Tuesday cancelled financing for a controversial hydroelectric dam in south- east Turkey because of concerns it will harm the environment.

A statement released by the state-run credit agencies for the three countries said the decision followed the failure of Turkey to fulfill environmental standards for the 1.2-billion-euro (1.68 billion dollars) Ilisu Dam and hydro lake.

The institutions last year suspended their financing because the Turkish government had failed to fulfill the criteria by December 2008. They later gave Turkey a 180-day extension, which expired July 6.

The statement by Germany's Euler Hermes Kreditversicherung AG, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG and Schweizerische Exportrisikoversicherung said that while Turkey had made progress on meeting many of the standards, others were left unfulfilled.

The dam project is part of the Turkish government's plan to boost economic prosperity in the country's less-developed south-eastern region, long troubled by clashes between security forces and the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK).

The hydro lake is to have an area of more than 300 square kilometres. It would flood Hasankeyf, a city with archaeological remains of major scholarly importance, and force the relocation of 10,000 people.

Germany had originally guaranteed German exporters would be paid 190 million euros. Export credits can be used as a form of project finance.

Source: Monsters and Critics.

Turkish Generals Psychological Warfare Department Back in Action. Bomb in Sirnak. 4 Dead, 9 injured. Echos of Guclukonak!

By Hevallo

It is still, perhaps too early to say, (added 8th July, HPG deny any involvement in explosion) but anyone who is reading and disgesting the latest news about a bomb that has killed 4 dam construction workers in Ballıkaya, Sirnak this morning will be scratching their heads.

Why? PKK are already being blamed but why would they plant a mine on a road that is used by dam construction workers.

How does this make sense as firstly the PKK do not target civilians and secondly, we are on the edge, the cusp, of a 'solution' to The Kurdish Question in Turkey and the PKK's military engagements are only in relation to offensive attacks against them by the Turkish military?

In whose interests would this mine attack serve? And remember we have all been waiting, predicting, expecting a 'provocation' of some sort. So, in whose interests would it serve to place a mine on a road used by dam construction workers?

Well, let me offer my own, first, early thoughts.

The last two posts on Hevallo have been about Psychological Warfare and The Turkish economy and how it will effect the GAP Project and construction of dams.

Well, lets have a look at this incident that is being widely reported in the Turkish and international press.


The victims of this incident are civilians from a construction firm that are building a dam!

Yes, a dam! Yes, I know what your thinking..........a dam just like the dam that Turkey are having problems funding from the international community. In fact only a few days ago it was reported that Turkey would find ways to continue this dam DESPITE losing international backing for it.

Call me a cynic but this incident looks like one of those ways and in all likelihood has been cooked up in murky bowels of the Turkish Generals Psychological Warfare Department. It bears all of the classic hallmarks including the early identification of all of the victims that are being reported in the press. Some of the victims are Kurdish patriots from Lice.

It has all of the appearance's of a piece of Turkish black operations designed to discredit the PKK as always, and especially now, being on a historic ceasefire and waiting for a response from the Turkish Government, with many parties even believing that the process has gone so far now that nothing, not even a provocation, can stop it.

And it would also of course help the Turkish regime to look like they were suffering from 'terrorist' attacks in relation to their dam building and gain sympathy for their totally internationally discredited GAP Dam project that would flood the Kurdish region and destroy Kurdish heritage thousands of years old including Hasankeyf. (pictured above)

The stakes are high as Turkey is poised to sign a big gas pipeline deal in Ankara with Europe on 13th July 2009. The Deep Staters/Generals are hoping that now is a good time to get Europe's sympathy towards the ill fated GAP Project.

It reminds me of the incident at Guclukonak (right) in Jan 1996 where 11 Kurdish villagers were burnt alive in a minibus but somehow their identity cards were held by the army without a burn mark to be seen (a phenomenon that could not be explained by a red faced army officer when he was asked). An incident that was proved to of been carried out by the Turkish state themselves to discredit the PKK and deflect criticism of their soldiers who had photographs published in the European press of them holding the decapitated heads of Kurdish guerrilla fighters.

Enquiring minds need to go and investigate and not accept the Turkish psycho departments word for it!

It looks like Turkey's Psychological Warfare Department is back in action!

Turkey's Economy Crashes into Very Serious Recession! It's Official!

"Read all about it!"

It also begs the question about how they are going to restart the Gap Project to flood Hasankeyf.

Turkish Generals, AKP and Psychological Warfare.

TURKEY: Military Ghost Rises Again

ANKARA / 29 June 2009 / by Jacques N. Couvas

Less than two years after its discreet sealing, the truce between ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) seems to have ended.

The publication Jun. 12 of an article in Taraf, a liberal newspaper, of an alleged plan by army officers to overthrow the government and incriminate Fethullah Gulen, a religious leader and founder of the country's largest Muslim brotherhood, revived the polemic over the role of the military in the governance of the nation.

Although Taraf's scoop stirred indignation among politicians from all sides, the spirits remained calm for the past two weeks. But the verdict last Wednesday of the General Staff military prosecutor that the plan revealed was not p repared at TSK headquarters, and his decision not to file charges against the plan's purported author, Col. Dursun Cicek, an officer serving in the army's psychological warfare unit, triggered the ire of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Over the weekend, senior ministers disclosed that Erdogan would bring additional evidence on the plan and its authors before TSK's leadership at the National Security Council (MGK) meeting scheduled for this Tuesday. This high-level confrontation is expected to test the limits of the entente between the heads of the state and army.

The plan, according to the accusations by Taraf and AKP, contemplates mobilising agents controlled within AK to discredit the party through their actions and words. It also envisages planting of weapons in the homes of members of Gulen's movement, in order to make a convincing case that its members are "terrorists" with links to separatist Kurdish PKK rebels.

Manipulation of the media for igniting national istic and anti-Greek and Armenian feelings among the public is another milestone in the plan.

Military coups are a periodical occurrence in Turkish politics. Since the end of World War II, there have been three dictatorships, in 1960, 1971 and 1980, and a "post-modern" coup, when on Feb. 28, 1997 the MGK demanded that "the forces of reaction should be confronted", precipitating the collapse of the government and its replacement by a secularist coalition.

The "forces of reaction" in the event was a reference to the Welfare Party (RP), the first Islamist political movement to have won legislative elections in the country. Its leadership, including Erdogan, then mayor of Istanbul, was banned from politics for several years. Erdogan also served prison as a result of this crisis. After the victory of the newly formed AKP, successor to RP, in the 2002 national elections, and especially after the return in 2003 to politics of Erdogan and his appointment to premiership, senior army officers became again more vigilant.

When, in April 2007, Abdullah Gul, a leader within AKP, remained the sole candidate to the presidency of the state, the Chief of the General Staff, at that time Gen. Yasar Buyukanit, issued a warning against the appointment of an Islamist at the top office of the republic, implying that the armed forces might intervene. An arm-wrestling contest began, which ended in August at a confidential meeting between the PM and Buyukanit.

No spectacular incidents have been observed since. On Aug. 28, 2007, Gul was elected President by the AKP-dominated parliament. His swearing-in ceremony, held the same day, was not attended by the Chief of the General Staff. Tradition, supported by certain articles of the Constitution, calls for the army's allegiance to the principles defended by the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a resolute secularist.

Gul is the first head of the state to have an Islamist background. He s erved between 1983 and 1991 at the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia, where his wife Hayrunnisa completed her university studies. The First Lady wears the Islamic scarf in all her appearances. The President is a supporter of Fethullah Gulen, who is resident in the U.S..

Following the appeasement in the AKP-TSK relations, the Turkish parliament voted overwhelmingly in August 2007 in favour of the invasion of northern Iraq to hunt down armed insurgents of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). PKK is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S. and the E.U.

The TSK had previously been asked to refrain from such expedition, on the insistence of the U.S. In the end, however, the Turkish army entered north Iraq in February 2008.

Political life took its normal course. On the surface only, however, because in the meantime the government had started legal proceedings to bring to justice 89 politicians, journalists, and retired military officers, suspected t o have conspired to overthrow the government. Their trial began last October, on the basis of a 2,500-page indictment, but 39 new arrests, including active officers, were added earlier this year.

The trial has been stretching the nerves of the officers at all levels. Most at TSK believe that the plot is a set-up to discredit the armed forces.

The government claim that the 'action plan' to fight Islamic fundamentalism, revealed by Tafar, was masterminded at TSK headquarters could be the drop that will make the vase overflow.

Prime Minister Erdogan and Gen. Iker Basbug, the Chief of General Staff, met at the end of last week privately for over an hour. Their respective positions seem to have remained unchanged.

Gen. Basbug has backed the decision of the military prosecutor, and insisted that the document was not produced at his headquarters. Erdogan remained convinced that the plan is an official army document, and declared that the quest for culprits will b e pursued unrelentingly.

This clash may just be the top of the iceberg. Public opinion, which, according to polls, considers the armed forces the most trusted institution of the country, has shown since 2007 that military juntas are no longer in fashion. A plan for a coup could therefore only be the work of an isolated group of officers.

What may be more likely as the cause of the crisis is the diverging agendas of the government and the military on a number of issues, including Cyprus, the Kurdish issue, the recent rapprochement with Armenia, the low-key but systematic introduction of laws that favour Islamist practices in everyday life, the dosed purge of 300 TSK officers this decade so far, and the new constitution intended by AKP which will aim at clipping the wings of the military in order to prove Turkey's adherence to the process for accessing the European Union.

As the economy is still away from recovery, in spite of daily assurances of local pundits, and the regional situation increasingly unstable, the protagonists of this new version of AKP-TSK performance are stuck in a prisoner's dilemma.Source:IPS

Remember Martyr Zilan!

After the Turkish Military Intelligence attempted an assassination of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Ocalan in Syria, a young Kurdish woman, Zeynep Kinanci or 'Zilan' took the decision to avenge this attempt and to also protest against the Turkish Regimes savage and 'dirty war' against the Kurdish people in Turkey that was being hidden from the outside world. She made herself into a human bomb and on 30 June 1996, walked onto a Turkish military parade, in Dersim, amongst the occupying forces of her country, Kurdistan, and ignited the bomb killing around 10 Turkish soldiers and seriously wounding another 44.

Before she took this action she wrote an open letter to the President of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, extracts of which is translated and published, for the first time in English, on-line, below.

"The enemy wages a total war against us. Our answer must be total resistance in the struggle for our freedom."

"My name is Zeynep Kinaci. I was born in Malatya in 1972. My family comes from the village of Elamli. We belong to the Mamureki tribe. I studied tourism and psychology at the Inonu university in Malatya.

Before I joined the liberation movement, I worked at the state clinic in Malatya. I am married: my husband comes from the village of Ixliya. He also went to the university of Malatya. During a clash in Adana, he was captured by the enemy in the winter of 1995. My family was fairly well off and I had a liberal upbringing. My interest in the Left and Kurdish Movement was aroused during my university studies, although at the time I was not attracted to any particular movement.

I believe that my support for the PKK and the liberation movement had its roots in the fact that my family was concerned to preserve their Kurdish identity. We had a number of patriotic friends but we were not organised or anything like that. Also, the economic problems which beset my family prevented me from discovering my own identity for a long time.

But slowly the situation changed, so that I was able to make a mature and confident decision to join the liberation movement. In 1994 I started to fight at the front in Adana for one year. In 1995, I joined the ARGK [Guerilla] units in the Dersim region. It was at this time that I made a big development, both personally and politically.



Our fight under the leadership of the PKK has saved the Kurdish people from its total destruction and led it onto the road of liberation. To inspire a people whose national values, soul, consciousness and identity belonged to the enemy, to stand up and fight, demands a great sense of responsibility, historical knowledge, courage and determination.

The PKK and its founder Apo, have roused a people from its slumber. A people which had no leadership, lacked patriotism and intellect, whose history was denied by its oppressor: a people who served the enemy and imperialism and had become increasingly dehumanised was inspired to take up the struggle and fight for its independence.

The great poet Ehmede Xani once said: "If we had an honest and honourable leader, we would never have been enslaved by the Turks, Arabs and Persians." A people whose individual members always and only act in their own interests, or in those of the family or the tribe and was always ruled by bogus leaders, has long been exposed to this curse.

History shows that no national struggle can be victorious without a leader who devotes his life to the people, who feels its pains and its desires, who selflessly recognises the practical tasks of the liberation struggle.

A people which was totally alienated, whose political social and cultural values were exploited, posed a great challenge for the PKK leadership. Our party has started on the road to liberation under extremely difficult circumstances. Its attitude to religion, to questions of identity and the family, are unique.

The arming of women and women's conferences and congresses have been organised by our party. The life of the party leadership, its courage, dedication to the cause, its intelligence, far-sightedness, its closeness and sensitivity to the ordinary people, its methods and experience is incomparable by the standard of any movement. Its interpretation and analysis of events is non-dogmatic.

The party leadership has developed the Kurdish revolution through the correct synthesis of revolutionary theory and practice and in full consonance with the Kurdish reality. It has achieved this neither by imitation nor through dogma, but creatively.

The often adduced reason for retarding our personal development, such as the influence of the bourgeois and feudal ideas, the special war, and hostile influences, which usually form the starting point for sterile self criticism are facile and inadequate. I believe that the most effective self-criticism is the practical realisation of our historical tasks. The enemy wages a total war against us. Our answer must be total resistance in the struggle for our freedom.


Resistance has become the characteristic basic principle of the PKK. We have to lay claim to this historic heritage and act according to the demands of this period.

This makes actions like voluntary death an inevitable necessity. Under certain conditions it is a tactic which will affect the enemy as much as boost the morale of our own people.

At a time when the enemy is trying to achieve its aim by assassination attempts on our leader, this is the only response left. Such an action creates a siege situation for the enemy who lacks any moral grounds for their own action and is in a permanent state of confusion and crisis. It will show to friend and foe alike our total determination and preparedness to achieve our freedom, even at the price of our lives.

Dear President, I see myself as a candidate for a voluntary death. I willingly concede that to give our lives is, from the standpoint of your unending and tireless work for our liberation, not enough. I hope to be able to contribute much more than my life. Through your struggle you have succeeded in bringing our people to life. You are the guarantor of the Kurdish nation and a guardian of world humanism. Your life gives us love, courage and belief.

I consider this action as a duty. I am convinced that to overcome my weaknesses and the realisation of my freedom, this action has to be carried out. I want to follow the examples of our comrades, Mazlum, Kemal, Hayri, Ferhat, Bese, Beritan, Berivan and Ronahi.

I want to be part of the total expression of the liberation struggle of our people.

By exploding a bomb against my body I want to protest against the policies of imperialism which enslaves women and express my rage and become a symbol of resistance of Kurdish women.

Under the leadership of Apo, the national liberation struggle and the Kurdish people, will at last take its richly deserved place in the family of humanity.

My will to life is very strong. My desire is to have a fulfilled life through a strong action.

The reason for my actions is my love for human beings and for life!"

Sibel Edmonds Writes on Turkey's Special Envoy in the US and US's Special Envoy in Turkey, Joseph Ralston!

The ex FBI Translator and Famous Whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds who is subject to the most repressive and total 'gagging order' in US history writes about the expose of the US Arms Dealer who secured billions for the biggest arms company in the world, Lockheed Martin under the cover of pretending to be a US 'Special Envoy' to Turkey.

Remember too, Robert Walter MP who drafted a recent EU report labelling the PKK as 'terrorists'. Lobbying for an arms company in his constituency with links to Turkey.

Turkish Generals to the Kurdish Freedom Struggle: We Will Annhilate You!

by Hevallo

Since the announcement by the Kurdish Freedom Movement of the unilateral military ceasefire, to give a chance of developing an initiative to solve the Kurdish Question in Turkey, there has been a lot of words written.

Many Turkish journalists have raised this proposal in the Turkish media and it has spilled out to so called 'expert' commentators around the world.

Even the Turkish president President Gul spoke of how the Kurdish issue is now Turkey's most important question.

Foreign Ambassadors have met with the Kurdish party, DTP, to encourage these developments and most people now have high expectations of a peaceful and political solution to 'The Kurdish Question in Turkey!'

I got myself excited too!

However, we are all in danger of hyping ourselves up into this delirious state of collective denial of what the actual realities are.

And while we are hyping ourselves up into this collective state of false hope and expectation the Turkish Generals are slowly moving their armies into offensive positions.

The Turkish Generals are speeding up the process's of buying attack military helicopters and pilot less armed drones.

The Turkish Generals are establishing Emergency areas in Kurdistan where Emergency Law dominates and civilians are being kept out.

This is not a secret. The Turkish Generals have never said anything else.

Their message has consistently been "We will annihilate the terrorists!"

And the leadership of the Kurdish Freedom Movement are warning that this is indeed the strategy that the Turkish Generals are laying plans for.

Total war!

The Generals have been emboldened by the Sri Lankan genocidal attacks on the Tamils and are determined to wage a total military onslaught against the Kurds.

This is backed up by intelligence collected by the Kurdish Freedom Movement. Of troop movements observed by PKK's intelligence teams and the military onslaughts that continue against the HPG, the Kurdish People's Defence Forces.

The Turkish Regime has absolutely no intention of trying to find a peaceful solution to The Kurdish Question in Turkey and are in the process of increasing their military attacks and of planning a total war strategy against the Kurds including the psychological aspect of misinformation and 'false flag' provocations.

But let them.


Because the Kurdish side are more than ready.

Politically, morally, militarily and psychologically.




We are now in uncharted waters and the political advantage is with the Kurdish side.

With the psychological aspect of the local elections win, the unilateral ceasefire, the high expectations by many others than only the Kurdish people and the military plans laid by Kurdish leadership to best fit the political and tactical terrain, it is going to be another famous case of the Turkish Generals collectively shooting themselves in the feet! And bringing the cause of Kurdish Freedom to the brink of realisation!

For the Turkish establishment and elites have NEVER and will NEVER relinquish any rights for the Kurds voluntarily.

Every single right has been won by the self sacrifice, struggle and self determination of the Kurdish People themselves!

THE KURDISH FREEDOM STRUGGLE CONTINUES!

Kurdistan Opens in Venice!

Planet K, part of the world renowned cultural festival, La Bienola, in Venice was opened by Leyla Zana, Emine Ayna and other Kurdish leaders from all parts of Kurdistan.

If you get a chance you must go to see this incredible festival in Venice.

Watch the opening and Leyla Zana reviewing the exhibits.

Racist Murder of Kurdish Child Legalised by Turkey's Highest Court.

This is Ugur Kaymaz. A Kurdish boy of 12 years old with his life in front of him.

Racist Turkish police killed Ugur and his father in Nov 2004.

Turkish human rights organisations call it an extra judicial killing of this father and son.

Hard to understand isn't it? Why would anyone would want to kill this young boy by shooting him in his back repetitively and at close range?

But then you look at this video of a grown man with a balaclava hood on beating a young Kurdish boy to the ground a picture of a deep racist hatred against the Kurds begins to build up....

How can children be the objects of such hatred?

Here again we have an example of such hatred against a young Kurdish boy. Watch closely as the Turkish policeman purposely bends the young boys arm back so much and then calmly adds more pressure to break the young boys arm. Watch it and then watch it again! These are scenes caught on camera. Can you imagine what they do off camera. This is the Kurdish reality in Turkey!



But surely, that this kind of barbaric cruelty against children cannot be supported by the authorities.

Yes, the ruling by Turkey's Highest Court a couple of days, just a few days before 'Father's Day' ruled in favour of the Turkish police acquitted by a Turkish court of killing Ugur Kaymaz and his father, Ahmet and said that the police were acting in 'self defence' even though all of their discredited 'evidence' was proved to be lies!

Even though 13 bullets were pumped into this little boys frail body at close range in broad daylight!

This is Turkey!

This is the situation of the Kurds in Turkey when a little boy can be murdered.........can have 13 bullets pumped into his small frame, from behind his back and at close range and it is sanctioned by the state!!

Deepest Condolences to the Family, Friends and Comrades of this Kurdish Hero!

Rızgar Derxust (Mehmet Sogut) joined the Kurdish Freedom Struggle in 1991 at a time when the Turkish army were systematically burning Kurdish villages and torturing the Kurdish people in prisons and killing them extrajudically on the streets.


Still then, many Kurds denied their own identity and could not listen to Kurdish music without fear of imprisonment or attack by racist Turkish nationalists who described Kurds, then, as 'Mountain Turks!'


The average life of a Kurdish Freedom Fighter, at that time was no more than 2 years or less.


Thousands of young Kurdish people went to the mountains to defend their people, culture, language and honour.


It is because of people like Rizgar Derxust and their sacrifice that Kurdish people can today hold their heads high and talk of winning their rights. Rizgar was born in a village in the Lice district and rose to be an experienced commander in the Kurdish army, ARGK/HPG.

Rizgar died as a result of injuries sustained during a Turkish army mortar attack on his position in the province of Bingol on 10th May 2009.

Over 15,000 Kurdish people in Diyarbakir took Rizgar's body and put it into the earth with love, care and gratitude to this young man whose bravery and determination to fight against the injustice of the Turkish racist denial of the Kurdish identity, will be remembered by generations to come.

Rizgar's life should serve as a inspiration to all and inspire us to increase our solidarity work in his honorable memory.

Live, and take comfort.

Thou hast left behind

Powers that will work for thee;

air, earth, and skies;

There's not a breathing of the common wind

That will forget thee;

thou hast great allies;

Thy friends are exultation's, agonies,

And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

SEHID NAMERIN!

Turkey's Response to PKK's Peace Proposal is Increased War and Psychological Black Operations.

Hevallo adds: As well as the expose of the Turkish Generals increase in Psychological Warfare against AKP and the Kurds, the Generals have increased their physical bombing attacks of the Kurdish Freedom too, as described in the article below. In this 'googlely translated' article from Ozgur Gundem (and this from ANF) it appears that Turkey's Generals have increased their bombings since the PKK declared a ceasefire and offered to solve the Kurdish Question peacefully.


‘Turkish bombs burn large tracts of Iraqi forest’
(Photos of recent bombings of South Kurdistan by the Turkish Generals added by Hevallo)

ARBIL: More than 125 hectares (300 acres) of forest in northern Iraq have been burnt in the past month due to Turkish bombardment, a senior official in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan said on Sunday.


The official told AFP that an emergency team of firemen and border and forest guards had been formed to extinguish the fires in the Kurdish province of Dohuk. “More than 500 dhonam (125 hectares, 1.25 square kilometres) of forest was burned as a result of Turkish bombardment this month,” said Najat Sufi Hariri, the planning director in Kurdistan’s agriculture ministry.

“People in the area are helping the (emergency) team extinguish the fires. The last fire was extinguished a couple of days ago,” he said. Since 1992 when the Kurdistan Regional Government for northern Iraq was formed, the cutting of trees and the killing of wildlife essential to the local ecosystem have been banned.



But aided by US intelligence, Turkish jets have been bombing hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq since December 2007 under a Turkish parliamentary authorisation, which expires in October.

The PKK, listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community, took up arms in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed about 45,000 lives.




The militants have long taken refuge in remote mountain bases in northern Iraq, which they use as a springboard for attacks on Turkish targets across the border. Last November, Iraq, Turkey and the United States formed a joint committee to curb the PKK threat. AFP

Hevallo asks a simple question: Who would continue to suffer this kind of military attack without any defence?

Turkey has used mind control and psychological warfare for years.

I'm sure that Mizgin will do a greater in depth analysis on this.

And if fact, if there is any journalist with an interest in Turkey worth their salt they should write a book on this subject.

It would contribute a lot more to a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish Question than Turkish Psychological warfare drivel and lies repeated by most commentators or journalists who pretend to specialise on Turkey's political issues.

It is the reason that Hevallo exists!

Turkey's psychological war!

Lies written for the Turkish Generals agenda of war, hatred and dominance.

They have been caught 'red handed' , again, preparing their next psychological warfare report and action plan.

This time it is targeting AKP.

If you are new to the Kurdish issue and Turkey's control of the media, both national and international you will be shocked. But for many of us it is not surprising at all but good to see it being exposed.

So when the next big provocation comes along,

just remember!

The Kurds demand peace but have been treated as 'terrorists' by the world.

At the Third Democratic Society Congress in Diyarbakır, delegates called for peace and constitutional change.

A two-day Democratic Society Congress in Diyarbakır, the Kurdish-majority city in the southeast of Turkey, ended with a concluding declaration.

It was the third congress of its kind and attended by around 600 delegates, many from the Kurdish political movement.

Call to end operations

Hatip Dicle, former chair of the Democratic Party (DEP) and Diyarbakır MP for the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), said in the statement read at Koşuyolu Park that the unilateral ceasefire declared by the armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was an important opportunity. He called on the state and the government to stop military operations immediately.

Around 10,000 people joined the Peace March prior to the statement, shouting slogans in support of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and dancing folk dances.

Dicle said that the congress had been used to create a "detailed road map" for a peace process.

The congress delegates called on a civilian constitution that lifted any discrimination against the languages, cultures and identities of Kurds and other people, as well as demanding an end to the obstruction of democratic politics.


The congress was attended by the DTP's chair Ahmet Türk, the party's MPs and 98 mayors, Süryani representative Yakup Gabriel, former State Minister Adnan Erkmen, Diyarbakır Protestant Church representative Ahmet Güvener, Feyzullah Deniz from the family of Shaikh Said, the leader of a considerable Kurdish uprising in 1925, Kemal Bülbül from the Alevi Union Federation, Yezidi representative İbrahim Biro, Abdullah Öcalan's brother Mehmet Öcalan, former MPs, academics, artists and writers.

Invited members of the Rights and Freedom Party (HAK-PAR) and the Participatory Democracy Party (KADEP) did not attend.

More courage needed

Speaking at the opening of the congress on Saturday, Ahmet Türk said, "It is not Kurds who are the reason or source of the deadlock." He criticised the government for a lack of "courageous approaches".

Emphasising that Kurds were insisting on a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question, he argued that Kurds had been treated as terrorists by the national and international public.

A report with suggestions for a solution to the Kurdish question will be given to President Abdullah Gül, political parties and NGOs. (EZÖ/EK/AG)

Diyarbakır - Bia News Agency
15 June 2009, Monday

Lift the Ban on PKK! Sign the Petition!

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL.

3,275 have signed the appeal by 1 June 2009 – PLEASE SUPPORT AND ADD YOUR NAME!

Deadline for signatures 15 July 2009!

APPEAL Lift the ban on the PKK – Justice and Freedom for the Kurds


To the UK government and the European Union


For the past 30 years, the Kurdish region of South-Eastern Turkey has been wracked by conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). A peaceful settlement could be achieved – but efforts to secure peace have been jeopardised by the UK and European Union’s ban on the PKK as a ‘terrorist’ organization. As a result, the only organization that enjoys the mass support of Kurdish people has effectively been excluded from the negotiating table.

The Kurdish people seek peace. The Turkish government says it wants peace. The European Union wants a stable and democratic Turkey to become a member of the EU. But no armed conflict as deeply rooted as the one between Turkey and the Kurds has ever been resolved without first reaching a political settlement that is formally binding and verifiable. Of necessity this demands a willingness by all parties – in this instance, representatives of the Turkish state and of the PKK - to negotiate on equal terms. The ban on the PKK has placed a block on such dialogue even starting.

We believe that PKK has clearly demonstrated over many years that it commands the loyalties of the vast proportion of the Kurdish people living in Turkey and the Kurdish diaspora. We also believe that the organisation has successfully given voice to the Kurdish people’s demands and has articulated these demands in responsible and measured ways. In so doing, it has shown that it is fully entitled to be regarded as the representative body of the Kurdish people. Indeed, no peace agreement is likely to be reached without the PKK’s active participation. Lifting the ban is a thus a pre-requisite to peace.

We are also concerned that the continuing conflict between Turkey and its Kurdish minority remains a serious obstacle to lasting peace and democratic reform in Turkey and inhibits progress on its accession to the European Union

Despite being held in prison by Turkey for more than ten years, Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK’s founder and leader, still commands the loyalty and support of millions of Kurdish people. During his decade of detention and indeed long before Ocalan has issued many constructive proposals for peace and dialogue and the PKK has adopted numerous unilateral ceasefires.

We believe that both Ocalan and the PKK have an important role to play in the pursuit of a lasting peace between Turkey and the Kurds. We the undersigned are convinced that by delisting the PKK the deeply longed for peace will be brought that much closer.

Supported by Kurdish Federation UK, Kurdish People’s Council, Peace in Kurdistan Campaign

First signatories to PKK appeal Mark Thomas, journalist/comedian; Tim Gopsill, Editor, National Union of Journalists; Margaret Owen, Widows for Peace through Democracy (WPD); Gareth Peirce, human rights lawyer; Hugo Charlton, barrister; Roger Tompkins, international human rights lawyer, retired; Michael Gunter, Professor of Political Science, Tennessee Technological University, US; Dr Felix Padel, writer, UK; Caroline Austin, photographer, NUJ; Tony Gard, Movement for Justice; Hywel Williams MP; Martin Caton MP; Bill Etherington MP; Ronnie Campbell MP ; Nick Harvey MP; David Drew MP; Les Levidow, CAMPACC; Saleh Mamon, CAMPACC; Ann Alexander, Scotland Against Criminalising Communities; Richard Haley, Scotland Against Criminalising Communities; Norman Horne, retired; Prof. Dr. Raimund Rütten, Universität Frankfurt am Main; Sarah Parker, translator, Socialist Resistance, London; Dave Hewitt, Nottingham; Carmencita Karagdag, Coordinator, Peace for Life (WWW.peaceforlife.org ); Patrick Mac Manus, Foreningen Oprør / Rebellion (Denmark): www.opror.net/blog/ ; Navn Karl Aage Angri Jacobsen, Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)/Retired; Raymond Swing Frederiksberg, Denmark; Janni Milsted , Pædagog, Denmark; Ove John Nielsen, Denmark; Ion Meyer, Kopenhagen University, Denmark; Ulrik Danneskiold-Samsøe, Denmark; Gitte Thomsen, Denmark; Jette Englund, Denville, New Jersey USA; Ricardo Gustavo Espeja, historian, Argentina; Xusrew Zeki , IT Consultant, Hans Branscheidt EUTCC-Germany.

3,275 have signed the appeal by 1 June 2009 – PLEASE SUPPORT AND ADD YOUR NAME!

Deadline for signatures 15 July 2009!

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