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that election very hard. And this is how they did it: They prevented AK
Party voters, and even party members, and ballot box officers, and building
officers to go to the ballot box and cast their votes by force, by force of arms
and threats. Our members, officers were directly threatened by phone calls
from Qandil. They intimidated 45,000 Van residents, AK Party voters and
prevented them from voting by threatening them. They set the car of one of
our members on fire because he wouldn't listen to them. This is the reason

why we lost in Van. It is the KCK." 103

This fake, communist state-like organization is under the control
of a terrorist group that is in the habit of backstabbing and staging
cowardly attacks and therefore, it is not surprising that it manages its
control through the spreading of fear and terror. The people of South-
eastern Anatolia are living under severe pressure and threat while the
mainstream media is largely indifferent to these realities, and for the
sake of the Solution Process, chooses to feature people and statements
that propagandize Öcalan and the PKK. Those columnists who go to
Qandil and glorify (and sometimes hail) the terrorists, portraying

their lifestyles like a fairy tale, are shown under favorable light.

The fact that the PKK will not lay down its arms, but will actual-
ly grow stronger and arm itself even more, that it will set up caches in
the cities, cunningly establish hegemony over cities and then return to
the fray as the communist ideology demands and once more turn its
guns on our people in a cowardly manner is something we have reit-
erated and warned against throughout the ceasefire process. We
issued that warning because it is obvious that due to its ideology, the
PKK will never abide by a ceasefire or accept any such thing as peace,
but will continue to use violence to achieve its aim of a communist

state until the Turkish state collapses. If - God forbid - they manage to
tear off parts of Turkey and build a communist state there then a mas-
sive surge in terror will result, which will ultimately plunge the entire
world into turmoil.

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