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The PKK's insidious activities
that aim to lay hold of the cities
continued with the efforts to
legalize the PKK. During the
ceasefire, the erecting of a sta-
tue of Mahsum Korkmaz (the
first commander of the PKK)
and putting up posters of PKK
terrorists on municipality
buses indicated the severe
magnitude of the PKK threat.

The only reason why

we are differentiating the
HDP in terms of the South-
east is that this party is sup-
ported by the PKK. Indeed,
as we shall be seeing in the
context of the structure of the KCK, the party in question is most like-
ly under severe pressure from the KCK/PKK. This represents a grave
threat to the country. The way that ever since the beginning of the
Solution Process, party officials have made frequent references to the

subject of autonomy, have shifted their tone with respect to this point

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