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Several Kurdish intellectuals or opinion leaders were illegally
detained or assassinated. It is a known fact that the majority of these
incidents were organized in collaboration between Ergenekon and the
PKK.

While the deep state apparatus was deliberately neglecting the
region it was the PKK that appeared under the guise of a savior of the
people offering work and other opportunities. The region had delib-
erately been left in a backward socioeconomic state, and its people

had knowingly been abandoned to poverty, wretchedness and igno-
rance. As a result, the people of the region were deceived by "black
propaganda" using the limited means of communication available
and the state was literally portrayed as "a fascist power that wants to
annihilate the Kurdish people".

Right from the very outset the objective of the Ergenekon terror
organization has been to break Turkey up, split our beloved Kurdish
brothers away from us and establish a communist Kurdistan separate
from Turkey. It therefore sought to alienate the Kurdish people by
pressuring them, and it expected that they would demand to break

away from Turkey because of that pressure. However, this sinister
deep state apparatus underestimated the Kurdish people's faithful
character and loyalty to the country and the nation. Even when they
were being most neglected by their own state - under the influence of
the deep state apparatus - these fine people never lost their belief in
that state and never even considered breaking away from it. The
Ergenekon terror organization's intended plans for the Kurdish peo-
ple thus ended in failure, and it suffered a grave defeat it had never
envisaged.

Our Kurdish brothers need to know that we are not unaware of
what was going on in the Southeast at that time. We are well aware

that our Kurdish brothers were exposed to severe pressures, subject-
ed to extraordinary injustices, unjustly lost members of their families,

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