BEWARE OF PROVOCATIONS!!

Steadfastness urged in Kurdish process July 31, 2009 “Observers have even raised the possibility that rogue elements embedded deep within the state may plan violent acts to assign the blame to Kurds or the military, in the hopes of inflaming public furor over the bloodshed and to pit different segments of society against each other…”

Amid renewed talks of a solution to the decades-long Kurdish problem in the Turkish capital, observers have expressed their concern over possible incidents that might outrage the public and may eventually derail the ongoing process.

They have asked for steadfastness on the part of the government and patience from the public to maintain the drive to look for solutions to the issue. Among the possible scenarios that were cited by various analysts were the possible bloodshed in major city centers in Turkey which could be attributed to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or the killing of Turkish soldiers in the southeastern part of the country, leading to a major offensive by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), possibly including a cross-border operation stretching to northern Iraq. Observers have even raised the possibility that rogue elements embedded deep within the state may plan violent acts to assign the blame to Kurds or the military, in the hopes of inflaming public furor over the bloodshed and to pit different segments of society against each other. The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party's (DTP) deputy Hasip Kaplan urges the government to act rapidly on a recently announced government plan which pinpoints further democratization and a broadening of rights as major pillars of the solution package. “I think the government should immediately take steps to implement these decisions,” he told Today's Zaman, warning that gangs and illegal organizations will do everything in their power to halt the process. Kaplan also asked the media and civic organizations to act responsibly in the face of provocative acts instigated by these gangs to derail process. “They [the publishers and community leaders] have a responsibility to maintain common sense among the public and should pressure the government to find real perpetrators” he noted. The DTP deputy further asked the military to refrain from major offensives in predominantly Kurdish populated regions out of fear that clashes and funerals serve to inflame public emotions and hurt the solution-finding process. “If there is a real consensus among the state branches, including the military, in finding a solution to Kurdish problem, security agencies, both the police and the military, should avoid engaging in offensives,” he underlined. Interior Minister Beşir Atalay on Wednesday confirmed that the government is working on a comprehensive solution package to end the long-running Kurdish problem; however, he declined to go into details of the plan. He said, “Turkey will implement Kurdish policies based on a model unique to the country's own history and current conditions.” A major point in Atalay's speech was his emphasis on further democratization and a broadening of rights. “The government will continue to take determined and courageous steps to solve the Kurdish problem, which has cost Turkey dearly on many fronts,” he said. As part of the recent initiatives, sources say PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may eventually agree to meet with the DTP leader and the party's deputies. Erdoğan has so far refused to meet with DTP leader Ahmet Türk on the grounds that the DTP refuses to distance itself from the PKK or openly denounce PKK violence. The last scheduled appointment between Türk and Erdoğan on May 29 was cancelled after a land mine planted by the PKK killed six soldiers. Erdoğan said whenever he tried to meet with DTP deputies, the PKK staged attacks. “The minute you decide to take a step, bombs explode,” said Erdoğan in June. Türk has been requesting a meeting with the prime minister since the July 22 general elections in 2007.

31.07.2009

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TODAY'S ZAMAN

DTP Demands the Turkish Military Forces Halt Military Operations against Kurdish Freedom Movement.

ANKARA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's Democratic Society Party (DTP) called on the government on Wednesday to stop military operations against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) to prove its "Kurdish move" sincere, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. DTP leader Ahmet Turk made the appeal after a meeting with Turkey's top business organization TUSIAD on the Kurdish issue, saying that they would not trust the government unless all military operations against PKK are halted. "Our wish is also peace and a democratic solution. While putting forth this democratic solution, democratic and cultural rights of the 20 million Kurds living in Turkey should not be ignored," said Turk. Earlier in the day, Turkish Interior Minister Besir Atalay said the government is to introduce a package plan aimed at boosting the democratic rights of its Kurdish community to solve the over-two-decade Kurdish issue. "We believe the Kurdish problem can be solved by improving and enhancing the democratic rights of our citizens and ensuring that all see themselves as free and equal citizens ... The solution lies in democracy," Atalay told a press conference. Atalay said the government has yet to finalize the package plan, which would contain short, medium and long-term measures, but he declined to give details. About the Turkish government's "Kurdish move," the DTP head said the government should make haste and not create a sense of frustration in the public. The DTP, which won the majority of the municipalities in the local elections of March in the eastern and southeastern provinces of Turkey where Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin are mostly concentrated, refuses to regard PKK as a terrorist organization. Lawmakers and mayors from the DTP which holds 21 seats in the parliament have faced charges due to their pro-PKK speeches. Established in 1978, the PKK took up arms in 1984 to create an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. Some 40,000 people have been killed in conflicts involving the PKK for the past over two decades. Turkey's military forces have taken tougher actions against the PKK after the country's legislature gave the government mandate to launch cross-border operations against the rebels in northern Iraq in October 2007 and extended it in 2008. It is estimated that there are a total of 5,000 PKK militants, the majority of whom are holed up in northern Iraq where the PKK headquarters is situated. Source: Xinhua

Lest We Forget!

As the Kurdish Leader, Abdullah Ocalan prepares to publish a roadmap on the 15th August 2009, for a solution to The Kurdish Question in Turkey, Hevallo remembers the Kurdish Martyrs who defended the Kurdish people from Genocide and with whom without, the Kurds would of lost their identity for ever.

So, as you watch this short clip from a film made by Halil Uysal, a Kurdish Martyr about a another Kurdish Martyr, Beritan, spare a moment to remember all Kurdish lives lost fighting for Kurdish Freedom, in this dirtiest of wars waged against the Kurdish people by the Turkish regime.

SEHID NAMERIN!

Is Turkey Preparing for Peace? The Guardian.

Is Turkey finally ready to reconcile with the Kurds?

Hevallo will not be around in the run up to the 15th August.

The Turkish State is Destroyed!

This brilliant piece of truth from the Taraf newspaper, published by Mizgin at Rasti.
(Hevallo is away from modern technology, so apologies for lack of posts, especially at this critical time)

Abdullah Ocalan: Will Offer Turkey Road Map for Peace on 15th August: 25th Anniversary of Kurdish Freedom Struggle.

15th August 2009.

On 25th anniversary of PKK's armed struggle for Kurdish Freedoms and rights in Turkey, Abdullah Ocalan will offer Turkey a Roadmap for Peace.

Read all about it!

Remzi Kartal Free to Work for a Peaceful Resolution to Kurdish Question in Turkey!

At a hearing at the Spanish High Court Turkey’s extradition application for Kurdish politician Remzi Kartal was rejected and his judicial supervision lifted.

Remzi Kartal presented his defence at yesterday’s hearing in the Spanish High Court in Madrid. According to reports, Kartal stated that he had struggled for a democratic resolution of the Kurdish question for years and would continue to do so. Kartal added that in the event of democratisation in Turkey he would willingly return. The indictment prepared by the prosecutor stated that Kartal was a refugee and could therefore not be extradited. The court’s verdict has yet to be announced, however, it has been learned that the court bench has rejected Turkey’s extradition request, handing down a judgment in line with the indictment and lifting the judicial supervision to which Kartal had been subjected. Kartal is expected to receive the verdict in a week’s time.

Doru’s judicial supervision continues

Therefore Kurdish politician Kartal will be able to return to Brussels, As for Eyyup Doru, who is also under judicial supervision in Spain, a trial date has yet to be fixed. Kurdish politicians Remzi Kartal and Eyyup Doru were arrested in Spain on 24 and 25 March, subsequently released, and appeared before a judge on 13 May.

Turkey made an official extradition request to the Spanish authorities through its Madrid embassy after Kartal and Doru had been detained. The Turkish Justice Ministry needed to reply within 40 days. At a cabinet meeting on 8 May a decision was made to continue the process. In the file submitted by Turkey to Spain Kartal’s political activities and speeches were put forward as ‘evidence of crime’. Kurds campaigned for weeks in many places in Europe calling for the rejection of the extradition request regarding the two Kurdish politicians.

Delil Firat ANF News Centre

9 July 2009

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.