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Cologne, 12 September 2002

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE BRIEFINGS:
KADEK: MHP a Danger for Peace

56 days before the snap polls in Turkey the ultra-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) is attracting public attention. They attempt to overthrow the recently adopted reform package

with the help of the Turkish constitutional court. Now Mesut Yilmaz, president of the Motherland Party, questions the coalition government which could result in a postponement of the polls. The ultra-nationalists focus their efforts on the Kurdish leader Ocalan who the MHP would very much like to see on the gallows.

This intention, though, seems to be obsolete after the abolishment of the death penalty. Therefore they demand to further tighten at least the hard conditions of Abdullah Ocalan’s solitary confinement.

In a statement for the Frankfurt-based pro-Kurdish Mesopotamian News Agency (MHA)

the Presidential Council of the Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) gave its opinion on these activities. There the MHP was denounced as war-mongers for attempting to revoke the reforms. While Turkey were keen to master the permanent crisis the MHP would do everything to even make it worse.

Anything that could result in a new flare-up of the war should be avoided. Therefore, KADEK would also be ready to support Turkey’s push for a target date for the beginning of membership negotiations with the EU. For this purpose all political or diplomatic options available would be employed. Furthermore, the Presidential Council demanded an improvement of the arrest conditions of its president.

In the long run, therefore, Abdullah Ocalan’s freedom were to be envisaged, or else there could be no solutions for the problems at hand nor would a stable peace be possible.

Sources:
MHA, 11 September 2002, 5:55 PM
AFP, 12 September 2002, 3:27 PM