Page 275 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

An account by Şemdin Sakık, a former founding member of the
PKK, in which he quoted "Ceasefire is a tactic of war, not peace," refer-
ring to Mao's statement is very significant:

Ceasefire is a tactic in war. Throughout history, parties have to
resort to the tactic of ceasefire at certain intervals in all wars,
big or small, regular or irregular, open or covert, due to innu-
merable factors. Because this tactic is a break that one or both
of the parties need.

Sakık continues:

The organization, every time it declared a ceasefire, announced
to the people that it had done it for peace, for the solution of
problems through dialogue. But practical reality progressed

in the exact opposite direction. After every ceasefire,
training, armament, relocation and deploy-
ment of armed militants, and their certain

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