Ayna to US: listen to all of the parties involved in Kurdish question
Ayna to US: listen to all of the parties involved in Kurdish question
BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Vice Co-Chair Emine Ayna talked about their delegation meeting with Interior Minister and Pentagon authorities during their USA visit. “We told them that they must listen to the Kurdish problem from the first protagonists and spelled out the problems and the reasons which brought to the creation of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party).”
In the first week of May, BDP opened an office in Washington, USA. The BDP committee was there at the opening, among them BDP foreign affairs responsible Emine Ayna who spoke about the details of the US visit with ANF.
Stating that the policies concerning the Kurdish question are determined in USA, Emine Ayna spoke as follows; “We think that USA is listening only to one part in this question; the statements of Turkish state and government are determinant on USA policies. We wanted them to listen to the same question but from our point of view. This is why we have decided to open a BDP office in the USA.”
Ayna remarked that during the meeting the committee expressed that the USA must play its role well in the search for a solution to the Kurdish problem and Turkey’s democratization, adding; “USA granted Turkey a big role in Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iraq and Islam matters but the USA can play its role only after Turkey reaches a permanent solution to the Kurdish problem.”
Ayna pointed out that the internal problems of Turkey won’t come to an end unless the Kurdish question is approached democratically. Ayna added; “If the USA has such a big influence on Turkey, it has to see also the Kurdish people living in Turkey and their demands for the solution of the Kurdish question.”
Ayna added that the USA knows that the Kurdish question in Turkey is in fact not a matter of right or freedom, saying; “They deal the Kurdish question as an economic matter. The Kurdish question is however, a political matter, it is a matter of identity, culture and disparity; which the USA can’t see yet.”
Ayna concluded; “We met them because we thought that USA must listen to the Kurdish question from its first protagonists.”
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
In the first week of May, BDP opened an office in Washington, USA. The BDP committee was there at the opening, among them BDP foreign affairs responsible Emine Ayna who spoke about the details of the US visit with ANF.
Stating that the policies concerning the Kurdish question are determined in USA, Emine Ayna spoke as follows; “We think that USA is listening only to one part in this question; the statements of Turkish state and government are determinant on USA policies. We wanted them to listen to the same question but from our point of view. This is why we have decided to open a BDP office in the USA.”
Ayna remarked that during the meeting the committee expressed that the USA must play its role well in the search for a solution to the Kurdish problem and Turkey’s democratization, adding; “USA granted Turkey a big role in Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iraq and Islam matters but the USA can play its role only after Turkey reaches a permanent solution to the Kurdish problem.”
Ayna pointed out that the internal problems of Turkey won’t come to an end unless the Kurdish question is approached democratically. Ayna added; “If the USA has such a big influence on Turkey, it has to see also the Kurdish people living in Turkey and their demands for the solution of the Kurdish question.”
Ayna added that the USA knows that the Kurdish question in Turkey is in fact not a matter of right or freedom, saying; “They deal the Kurdish question as an economic matter. The Kurdish question is however, a political matter, it is a matter of identity, culture and disparity; which the USA can’t see yet.”
Ayna concluded; “We met them because we thought that USA must listen to the Kurdish question from its first protagonists.”
Translator: Berna Ozgencil
