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TERROR CAN BE BROUGHT TO AN END IF
THE PKK TERROR ORGANIZATION ABANDONS

ITS MARXIST-LENINIST IDEOLOGY

The "Solution Process" directed toward the PKK terror organization
laying down its arms, which the state and the government are pursuing
with great determination, has so far been prosecuted successfully. Prime

Minister Erdoğan's emphasis on "a single nation, a single flag, a single
country and a single state" right from the outset and particularly in
recent times, and the lack of any objections to it, is a very important and
appropriate thing to say in terms of increasing the confidence of the
nation. Our prime minister's rational and foresighted attitude and deter-
mined resistance to division are also a fine manifestation of his good con-
science. The fact that as of this time the PKK terror organization is rela-

tively less visible than it was in the past also increases faith in the success
of this initiative.
However, various things said by Öcalan that have recently appeared

in the press are also important in showing that there has been no sub-
stantial change in either his or the PKK's ideas.

It is clear from dialogues between deputies from the BDP party,
known to the public as the "Imralı Minutes," and Abdullah Öcalan that
he has not relinquished his mentality and perverse Stalinist philosophy
that regards terror as legitimate and that he has no compunctions what-
soever about drowning the country in blood.

Statements of Öcalan in these minutes:

"A truth committee will be established. It will be under the super-
vision of 'rational figures.' That is when there will be a withdrawal. There
will be a return to the villages. If they do not do these things, there will
be no withdrawal. We will grow the guerrilla movement still further
wherever we withdraw to. I do not agree that the guerrilla move-
ment will end if we withdraw. There is Syria and there is Iran. We

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