HDP MP and İmralı Delegation Spokesperson Sırrı Süreyya Önder spoke to the ANF on Abdullah Öcalan’s message announced in Amed today.

“ÖCALAN’S CONDITION HAS THE SAME MEANING AS THE REGION’S CONDITION”

Önder said, “Comparing with the weakness of the political analyses since we lost contact with him, the power of Mr. Öcalan’s discourse that comes from facts, history and experience sets itself apart immediately,” and continued:

“Secondly, Mr. Öcalan’s conditions of freedom, wellbeing and security isn’t only his conditions - the situation we’re in shows that the security, freedom and wellbeing of the country is synonymous with his. Because he is the only political leader who has a realistic vision for the region, who doesn’t only look from a military perspective.”

“HE HAS VOIDED THE SPECULATIVE APPROACHES”

“And third; the messages he gives have become the discourse that has voided the state manipulation to date. He has returned with analyses that void speculative approaches like ‘Öcalan is good, X is bad’, ‘X person has done this’. I find it important in this aspect as well.”

Önder also pointed out that Öcalan used the Eid as a way to emphasize the horror of war and said: “The timeline he offers for the solution and the fundamental principal approaches should shake everybody in Turkey up and bring them to their senses.”

Önder expressed that a matter as complex and multi-faceted as this can’t be solved through military approach alone and said: “Not giving too much into optimism, I still want to consider all this a start. As a main principle, it is necessary to take note of the resistance started by 50 of our friends, and thousands of our people who supported them. I salute them as well.”

WHAT SHOULD THE STATE DO?

İmralı Delegation Spokesperson Sırrı Süreyya Önder explained the duties of the state that they need to realize as follows:

“Today is the anniversary of the September 12 coup. Kenan Evren had said, ‘We hadn’t planned on taking such a large area in Cyprus, then we thought we would take some more land, and we’ll use it as negotiation bait, to give up on the table.’ This is the ancient approach of the state, but it doesn’t match the realities of our day and it’s empty. Their approach to the elected representatives of the people stem from this ancient but empty understanding.

The state must first internalize in itself that this is a political issue. They must come to this understanding. If they approach with the military idea, it turns into Mr. Öcalan’s analysis, there won’t be winners and losers, but it will cause years of suffering and social consequences. The state must first rid itself of the shallow approach of defining the issue by concepts of war and military concepts.”