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by Kışanak serves no other purpose than to attract attention to these
words and contribute to the ongoing autonomy project.

It must also be remembered that Kışanak issued a direct demand
for autonomy one year prior to the local elections. It was Kışanak who
on February 10 , 2013, told daily Hürriyet "We have a straight road:
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Autonomous Kurdistan". 76

Indeed, former Mayor of Diyarbakır Fırat Anlı described how
this policy of perception was implemented inside cities. Anlı said,
"They are already partly implementing this model in the Southeast, district
offices and other assembles have been set up, a federation closely resembling

independence has developed and they will soon declare autonomy." 77 Not
long after that statement, the PKK resumed its attacks from where it
had left off, and municipalities that were almost gifted to the HDP
after the local elections one by one shamelessly started to declare
autonomy. Although the judiciary took immediate steps, the fact that
these displeasing pictures were seen in the Southeast as the result of
appeasement should be carefully considered.

This terrible picture in fact announced its own imminent arrival.
The danger we have been constantly warning against in recent years
is in fact a cunning, illegal and communist state organization that has

already been treacherously put into action in Turkey; in other words,
the KCK.

A An illegal state within a legal one:

The KCK

The KCK (Koma Civakên Kurdistan – Union of Kurdistan Com-
munes) is an organization established by the PKK. It set out its aims

and the methods it would employ in the document known as the
"KCK Contract."

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