Refiq Ghafur: delisting PKK from terror list is achieving justice

In an interview carried out by ANHA Refiq Ghafur, Member to the Administrative Body of the Kurdistan Nationalist Conference said delisting Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK,  from terror lists opens new horizons and a new course for struggle and doing justice as well.

On the reason behind listing the party in terror lists by U.S. and EU Refiq says:

''The party commenced its struggle against the modern Turkish state as a state and successive governments, that still clings to the Misak Milli that denies and annihilates the Kurds as a people'.

Turkey as a power in the region and a successor to the Ottoman Empire has a great deal of experience of years of governance. It is a NATO ally, and a close friend to Europe and EU countries. It is one of the highly advanced countries in the region both technologically and militarily, and at the same time an ancient enemy to the Kurdistan Cause. 

On the latest campaigns in the west calling for the removal of the party from the terror list Refiq Ghafur says it is a vital issue, it is a breakthrough, form the part of organizers and signatories as well. It is a message that implies a clear fact that the human conscience and listening to justice is an effective issue. 

Refiq went on to say '' the struggle put up by the Kurdish people and the Kurdistan Workers' Party on the international arena has reached a stage that mobilizes the conscience of Europe and the west in general. The party's project and the human values it advocates that was developed by leader Abdullah Ocalan and his party for a just and a democratic solution are being perceived more widely and among different classes. For this, and though Turkey and many powers exerting unsparingly efforts to many have realized that it is no longer needed to listen to Turkey and other hostile powers and that the party should be removed from the blacklist in which the party was enlisted wrongfully,

Refiq says ''even some courts have realized the issue, and expressed its says clearly stating '' Kurdistan Workers' Party is a part to an armed conflict in Turkey and not a groups that magnates terrorists, the party is engaged in a struggle for the attaining of the rights of the Kurds, and not target civilian principally, for all these, it is not a terrorist group''.

These campaigns are emanating from new perceptions of the Kurdistan Question, and the struggle put up by the party itself, participants are not Kurds, and mostly rom same countries that enlisted the party in the black list, they run into this just initiative''. 

For certain, delisting the Kurdistan Workers' Party is the way to new horizons, and opens courses for struggle, and others for solution, not merely for the Kurdish Cause, rather for human causes principally. Delisting the party from the terror list would lead at the end to the termination of war and intra-fighting in a region very sensitive worldwide.

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ANHA