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Political maneuvering has been attempted, and people have
thought that a solution can be reached through demagogic meth-
ods and the terror organization's leadership or terrorist militants
won over.

Ceasefire agreements have been made.

Attempts have been made to bring PKK terror organization mil-
itants down from the mountains by such feeble approaches as say-
ing, "Go home to your mothers and eat her soup."

Laments have been sung at the funerals of martyrs, and these
have been carried in the newspapers and for hours on the televi-
sion in the belief that this will have a psychological impact on ter-
rorists.

Communist PKK militants have been called on to "...heed their
consciences and be compassionate and loving."

Communist PKK terrorists, who utterly reject the concepts of
the state, religion and the family and who know no other path
than violence and terror, have been "condemned."

Communist PKK militants have been called on to "...come down
from the mountains and live as brothers."

People have imagined that if communist terrorists are invited to
"...return to their fathers' homes and eat their mothers' soups," if
they are married off and made promises about making homes for
themselves, then that will win them over.

Finally, nonsense along the lines of "...let us give the terrorists
the Southeast so we can all relax," has begun being spouted.

While all this has been happening, clashes in Southeast Turkey
have been going on uninterruptedly. Turkish troops fighting to protect
the homeland and its citizens for God's approval have continued to be

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