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Jailed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) laminitis Abdullah Ocalan warned against immoderate hold successful taking ineligible steps to soma retired the bid process with Ankara, successful a connection shared connected Monday (May 25, 2026) .
Last year, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) formally renounced its equipped conflict against the Turkish authorities aft 4 decades of unit that claimed astatine slightest 50,000 lives connected some sides.
In a connection published by a delegation of lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish DEM party, who visited him connected Imrali situation land connected Sunday (May 24), Mr. Ocalan said prolonging the bid process would lone "generate risk".
"All these efforts indispensable beryllium grounded successful a ineligible framework," helium said, urging each actors progressive to enactment with "responsibility". "Remaining successful a authorities of expectation, oregon prolonging that state, lone generates risk. We person nary clip to lose."
He besides referred to the skirmishes astatine the main absorption CHP enactment office successful Ankara connected Sunday (May 24), wherever riot constabulary fired teardrop state days aft a tribunal dismissed its leadership.
The melodramatic scuffles betwixt constabulary and supporters of the party's ousted leader, Ozgur Ozel, were the latest occurrence successful a crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan connected his governmental rivals.
"Is breaking into the office of a governmental enactment by smashing the doorway with a sledgehammer thing that should hap successful a democracy?" Mr. Ocalan asked.
Such actions against the CHP were an "indicator of the lack of a decently functioning ideology and antiauthoritarian politics", helium warned.
A DEM delegation is owed to sojourn Mr. Ozel astatine his offices astatine the Turkish Parliament connected Monday (May 25), from wherever helium is present operating, the enactment said.
