Gul: Turkey has matured for immediate action on Kurdish issue

PanARMENIAN.Net - "You can refer to it as either the 'Kurdish issue' or 'Southeast issue', but it is the most important problem facing Turkey," Gul told reporters in Kyrgyzstan, where he met Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Prime Minister Igor Chudinov.

"This issue will grow larger the longer we take to solve it," he added.



He also said all Turkish political parties, including the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, need to contribute to efforts to solve this issue.

"This is everybody's problem. Everybody needs to be constructive and act as facilitator in order to solve this issue in a maturity that befits Turkey," he said. 

The issue has been high on Turkey's agenda since Gul said earlier this month that the country has never been closer to a solution to the decades-long Kurdish issue. He also said any solution should not be left only in the hands of the government, urging for contributions from opposition parties.



Gul's remarks were interpreted as an olive branch extended to the opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP, whose leader, Deniz Baykal, previously criticized the president and the government for disclosing the latest developments on the Kurdish problem.



The president gave the first hint of a resolution to the Kurdish problem while traveling to Iran in March. "Good things will happen on the Kurdish issue," he said, declining to provide details, Hurriyet reported.
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