Turkey declares roadmap, hopes to set Kurdish peace bid on track

Turkey declares roadmap, hopes to set Kurdish peace bid on track

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) declared roadmap, hoping to set Kurdish peace bid on track, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

“Our government’s resolve and sincerity about the resolution process is going on in the same way. The roadmap has been drafted to a great extent,” AKP deputy chair Beşir Atalay, also the spokesperson for the government, said at a press conference on Oct. 16.

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a key player in the Kurdish political movement represented in Parliament which is directly involved in the process aimed at ending the three-decade-long conflict between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey’s security forces, announced Oct. 13 that the government had “partially shared” the long-awaited draft roadmap aimed at accelerating the peace process.

A parliamentary delegation from the HDP composed of deputy parliamentary group chairs İdris Baluken and Sırrı Süreyya Önder earlier confirmed that they spoke with the government on Oct. 15. The pair, along with party colleague Pervin Buldan, are frequent visitors to jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is a central player in the process, and they are scheduled to pay yet another visit on Oct. 21 to the PKK leader serving a life sentence on İmralı Island in the Sea of Marmara.

According to Firatnews, around 4 thousand PKK and PAJK (Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party) prisoners in 92 Turkish jails have started hunger strike in protest against the AKP government’s collaboration with the ISIS in face of the ongoing attacks of ISIS gangs on the Kurdish town of Kobanê in West Kurdistan, Rojava.

The indefinite and irreversible hunger strike launched by PAJK inmates in Gebze on October 9 has been joined by thousands of others in 92 jails as of October 15.

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