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KURDS DECLARED CEASE-FIRE

Politics

From October 1 the Union of Kurdistan Organizations declared cease-fire calling on the Turkish authorities «to give up their attempts to solve the problem by force and to start negotiations».

This was the order of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish people, who is sentenced to life imprisonment in Turkey. The Kurds have decided to follow it, as «Turkey displays a desire to settle separate issues».

President of «Kurdistan» Committee, editor-in-chief of newspaper «Mesopotamia» Rash Charqyazeh says that after 2.5 years of bloodshed between the Kurds and the Turks the international community and the Turkish and Kurdish public and political circles are seriously concerned and make statements about the necessity of a new cease-fire. The previous one was violated on June 1, 2004.

“Cease-fire does not mean weakness; it means decisiveness to take new political and diplomatic steps”, says Midia Rezan, representative of the Caucasian wing of the Kurdistan Organizations Union>

According to member of “Kurdistan” Committee, member of the National minorities committee adjunct to the RA President Knyaz Hasanov, during the last 20 years the Turks have leveled to earth more than 5000 Kurdish villages, more than 10 000 Kurdish people have been sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism and tortured. “They have also blown up a kindergarten where 11 children died and more than 10 were injured”, he added.

And still, the Kurds of Armenia condemn every kind of terrorist act, whoever might commit them.