"Turkey's PKK-DTP Operations Further Complicate Kurdish Solution
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 77
April 22, 2009 06:32 PM Age: 4 hrs
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Home Page, Military/Security, Turkey
By: Lale Sariibrahimoglu
Simultaneous operations recently conducted in twelve Turkish cities against what police sources described as urban networks of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in which 120 people were detained, including senior members of the pro-Kurdish Kurdistan Society Party (DTP) represented in the Parliament, was widely seen as jeopardizing attempts to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. 'They [the Kurds] have given a message following the local elections that nobody should fear from the Kurds. But they [the political authorities] could not stand this. They have launched an operation against our party [DTP] following the elections,' Ahmet Turk, DTP Chairman and Deputy stated in London (Sabah, April 21)."
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