KCK Members: We Can’t Decide without Meeting Öcalan

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, met Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK) Legislative Council President Zübeyir Aydar and People's Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel) Co-Chair Remzi Kartal in Brussels.

CNN Türk website stated HDP deputy Sırrı Süreya Önder and İdris Baluken met Muhammed Dervişoğlu, Undersecretary of Public Order and security on August 4. After the meeting, 13 funerals of People's Protection Units (YPG) members were allowed to enter Turkey from Habur Border Gate.

"İmralı negotiations should start"

According to Ferit Aslan from Doğan News Agency, Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal stated they would decide for a ceasefire without consulting the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. 

Aydar and Kartal relayed the demands of KCK and said they were bound up with Dolmabahçe Agreement. Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal demanded Öcalan’s prison conditions to be changed and İmralı negotiations to be started with delegations and without the fear of isolation.

Aydar and Kartal indicated the government spoiled the resolution process not KCK and they added KCK only counterattacked. (EKN/BD)

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