PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan has made striking evaluations on the ongoing Turkish state terror and popular resistance in North Kurdistan.

Saluting the popular resistance in Cizre and Sur which endures for over a month now, Karayılan vowed that they will call perpetrators of the massacre against Kurdish women, children and youths to account.

PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan answered questions by Dengê Kurdistan (Voice of Kurdistan) Radio. Below is the interview translated by ANF English service.

In addition to the aggravated isolation on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, the state is waging a war against the Kurdish people with all its forces. How do you evaluate this all-out aggression?

Kurdish freedom movement is going through a very critical process of historic resistance against the all-out attacks of the enemy aiming to make our people surrender. This war was initially started in İmralı where the psychological torture system was toughened. Most recently, two of the inmates in İmralı were exiled without any explanation. This is a step taken against our Leader who manifests a very meaningful stand together with the others there, confronting every psychological pressure and attack. This is a message we all should draw a lesson from in order to manifest a determined stance against the attacks of the enemy. As the Kurdish people and movement, we must lead this struggle to the conclusion now as we are already at the final state. In many countries and wars, urban warfare becomes the final stage.

The resistance mounted in Sur and Cizre today has an indisputable meaning. We salute the young Kurdish men and women who are resisting an thousand-year-old atrocity. People of Sur an Cizre have succeeded in this resistance so far. The state is mobilizing all its technical and military possibilities including Gendarme Special Operation, Police Special Operation, SAS commandos and most recently Maroon Berets. The state hasn't resorted to warplanes alone, which it cannot because that would also hit its own forces.

Resistance endures in Sur for 50 days and in Cizre for 39 days now. This is a victory itself, over the Turkish state and AKP regime in the person of Erdoğan. As you see, 2-3 towns have stopped the state. What would happen if 20 towns did the same all together? The Kurdish people and Turkey's democracy forces have seen that the tyrant state can be stopped and this fascist system can be broken down by resistance. Those resisting in Sur and Cizre are militants of freedom and democracy who are gaining a victory over the castle of atrocity.

The enemy treats this issue tactically by making an effort to end the ammunition of militants, condemn the people to hunger and intimidate them in order for the evacuation of the self-rule areas. For this purpose, it is blatantly attacking and demolishing every single thing in counters. In the face of this truth, it is important to foil these attacks and lead this dignified resistance to conclusion. All cities and towns in Kurdistan should display an attitude in pursuant of the stand of İmralı. The approach of the enemy is 'We will save whole Turkey in the event of taking Sur and Cizre'. This is actually true because not only the Turkish state but also the AKP government is caught in quagmire and they are doing anything to save themselves from it. Erdoğan has proved a tyrant, racist and savage person. In other words, the AKP reality has come to light only now. The resistance of Kurdish people hasn't only revealed this truth but also pawed the way for accomplishment.

Most recently, a group of people including a deputy and co-mayor were attacked while carrying casualties in Cizre. Some lost their lives and many others got wounded. What do you have to say on this savagery?

We have also heard and watched images from the scene, which is literally heartbreaking. We cannot treat this process normally after seeing the atrocity our people are being subject to on the streets of Cizre. A group of people who include a deputy, co-mayor and municipal council members get shot while trying to retrieve the casualties on whom the European Court of Human Rights ruled a measure. The Turkish state has no law, no moral, no honour or humanity. They would not pay attention to the European laws and conventions. We will see what the ECtHR will do. It is either yet to understand the AKP atrocity in Kurdistan, or just doesn't want to understand it.

We are in the year of 2016 and cities are being bombed by tanks and artillery weapons deployed around them. State forces are randomly hitting and demolishing houses regardless of who are inside them. They do not mind the casualties they cause. Towns are being shelled day and night. In which state and country has such a case taken place? Doesn't Europe see all these? It does, of course, but maybe doesn't want to see it. There is a savagery committed and a war waged by the state against the people. Let me repeat once again; there are no professional guerrillas in the areas of self-rule but newly formed YPS which is people themselves. Yet, there was no YPS in the area where Kurdish politicians were shot in Cizre. They were all unarmed civilians whom the Turkish AA news agency later portrayed as "terrorists". Their lies have no bounds.

The boundary of tolerance is already exceeded. Erdoğan was convinced after 1 November election that Turkish chauvinistic votes would keep him in power as long as he waged a war against the Kurdish people. He himself has no mercy or conscience anyway. Yet, his atrocity is removing and ruining the ground for the co-existence of Kurdish and Turkish peoples. How will our people be able to live with them after being through all these things? The state is imposing an obedience on people by means of tanks and artilleries. How will this people and youth accept this? It would be dishonour to do so. Perpetrators of this atrocity are therefore targeting the integrity of Turkey. This execution of Erdoğan is getting the country into a tight corner and he himself will be responsible for the consequences this will result in. He will be called to account. Numerous children, women and mothers have been martyred. Will he possibly get away with it? Not, I promise. He will be called account for all these things he is committing. The war between us and the Turkish state is going on for years now, but it has never witnessed such a destruction as the one caused during the past several months. Turkish state is causing a huge devastation and confronting our people all together. The incident in Cizre proves the state's war against civilians. State forces have raked those people with bullets despite knowing the fact that they were civilians. Turkish state wants to lead this atrocity to the conclusion by targeting our civilian people and their representatives.

What message would you like to give finally?

What matters in this process is that everyone embrace their responsibilities without any hesitation or inner conflict. Botan deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız, asked what call he would make from Cizre during a TV interview, said "We make a call every day but noting happens as we are continuously being killed here. We have no more call left". Everyone should hear this scream raising from Cizre. We are not in the 1930s or 40s. We are in the age of communication when the world has got as small as a village and the influence of media on the world has grown stronger. It is a duty of not only Kurds but also democrats and Turkey left to mobilize public opinion, which can stop the most tyrant person even. Apart from this, if Kurds hear this scream from Cizre and take action everywhere they are, this alone will help stop the AKP. I cannot understand how Kurds in Turkish cities in particular call themselves democrat or patriotic as they watch our people being attacked and killed every single day, our wounded youths being denied access to hospital and bleeding to death. What are you waiting for there while our towns are being burned and razed to the ground?

This is why people of Cizre are right to say 'we make no call anymore'. It is time of honour and dignity, time to act rather than to utter words and comments, for which we also feel responsibility. Everyone should do whatever they can. If the Kurdish people in and outside Turkey and North Kurdistan, and four parts of Kurdistan go into action, they can achieve anything. Our liberation is in our own hands, as has never happened before. Everyone should therefore be attentive to the screams raising from the towns of resistance and fulfill their responsibilities with an awareness that we are being through an extraordinary, pressing and critical process. This will help collapse of the castle of cruelty and triumph of democracy and freedom. Our commitment and trust is stronger than ever.