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Freedom to Apo

What he actually means with "radical democracy" is the commu-
nist order that the PKK has been longing for for 40 years. The word
"democracy" is used only to mask their true intentions and their true
purpose has nothing to do with democratic norms or governance.

It is of paramount importance that our state and administrators
take the following into consideration: The PKK will not stop when
Kurdish people are granted the right to education in their mother
tongue, or an autonomous region in Southeastern Anatolia or even if
a federal state in the region was established. Due to the ideology of

the PKK, it is impossible for it to stop its activities in the region and
recognize and submit to the authority of the Republic of Turkey. If the
PKK manages – God forbid – to break Southeastern Anatolia away
from Turkey and successfully build a communist state there, it will
not stop and will instead continue its terrorist attacks to make the rest
of Turkey a communist state as well. From that point on, it will con-
tinue to lay the foundations of a communist world state, progressing
through the Middle East in the south, the Balkans and Europe in the
west and the Caucasus in the northeast. Once it manages to build a

basis, it would not be difficult for it to find supporters.

T The scale of the KCK's set-up

The situation is grim. Southeastern Anatolia can almost be con-
sidered under the rule of a state mechanism built by a communist ter-
rorist organization. The PKK has now penetrated our borders and

reached even the city centers. In some regions of Southeastern Anato-
lia, KCK courts are considered legal entities and it is quite ordinary to

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