The Kurdish PKK wants to take up arms again due to a “new wave of attacks” by Turkey. Recently, the outlawed Workers’ Party refrained from attacking because of the earthquake. But the “need for active struggle” is now too great.
The outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced the end of the ceasefire it unilaterally declared in February after the massive earthquake in Turkey. “The need for active struggle has become unavoidable,” the pro-Kurdish news agency Firat quoted the Union of Kurdistan Societies (KCK) on Wednesday as complaining of “new attacks”.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently launched massive action against the militant group. “We announce that we have ended the unilateral ceasefire effective today,” the militant Kurdish umbrella organization to which the PKK belongs said Tuesday.
This threatens to flare up again in the conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state, in which more than 40,000 people have died since 1984.
Many Kurds killed since Sunday
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was re-elected for another five years last month, has recently stepped up operations against the militant group and its offshoots in Iraq and Syria. According to Ankara, several dozen Kurdish fighters have been killed in northern Syria since Sunday.
The massive earthquake in February, which killed more than 50,000 people, hit a region close to the site of the fiercest fighting between the Turkish government and the PKK. Four days after the earthquake, the PKK, classified as a terrorist organization by the EU, the US and Ankara, declared it would suspend its “operations” in Turkey “as long as the Turkish state does not attack us”.
Source: Krone
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