Page 194 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

• Pardoning the murderers of soldiers, policemen and village
guards would be devastating for the families of tens of thou-
sands of martyrs, and hundreds of thousands of veterans. It
would harm Turkey in an irreparable way, and cause insuf-
ferable pain.

• Any concession given to communist terror will pave the
way for unstoppable aggression, impertinence and lawless-
ness.

• Releasing such murderers would essentially legalize all the
illegal acts of the PKK over the past 40 years and after that
point, there will be no respect for the laws and state, and ter-
ror will be legitimized.

• In order for an independent and PKK-affiliated Kurdish
state to be founded, a series of processes is needed which will
force the Kurdish people to support it, impose it on the region
and stimulate the society. It also needs Turkey's power and
honor to be undermined and weakened. That's one of the rea-
sons for the plan to release Öcalan. If a person who ordered
the massacre of 40,000 people is released and considered by a
strong state like Turkey as a person that can be negotiated
with, this will lead this person to be perceived as the

leader of all Kurds. In such an event, Öcalan
will naturally start dreaming of being
the president of all Kurds.

The PKK targeted mainly our Kurdish brothers and sis-
ters throughout its history and committed massacres
without hesitating to kill women, children and babies.
The fact that the PKK continues terrorism where it left
off the moment it finds an opportunity indicates that
the PKK would never give up terrorism. The ones trying
to portray the treacherous terrorist organization as if it
were innocent are not aware that they serve the aims of
the terrible terror targeting oppressed people.

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