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Thanks to these military and organizational preparations that
we had conducted by retreating to another country, we were
able to carry out the August 15 attacks. Burying old weapons
took us to more powerful weapons, while abandoning the field of
armed conflict for a while took us to a stronger war. 106

It is important to pay close attention to this significant admission.
The appearance of a retreating terrorist group that abandons its
weapons has always been a delusion throughout history. As Sakık
confesses, these withdrawals have always served the purpose of
ensuring that the organization recovers, rests and gets more training
while their old weapons were abandoned and replaced with newer
and more powerful weapons. The Republic of Turkey always faced
more vicious attacks after such retreats; that is what is happening
again today. The reason for this is clear: The method that would

indeed completely destroy the PKK is never tried, no scientific efforts
are made against the Leninist ideology and people are driven to
lethargy with "disarmament" rhetoric. The PKK has always taken
advantage of this lethargy and is currently doing so.

In fact, Sakık describes the withdrawal and disarmament state-
ments of the group, which have been quite frequently made over the
last two years, with the following words:

The organization hasn't retreated abroad, it just sent away some
of the burden just like it always does. By serving the images of
groups leaving the country to the media, it aimed to create an
impression of "retreat". So in terms of the militants, it is most
correct to say that "they neither entered nor left Turkey this
year". 107

Communists have always used terrorism to bully the masses into
submission and to abolish state organizations. Since they are never
going to give up on terrorism, they will not give up on weapons,

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