Attacks, plans carried out in alliance with KDP from 1991-1999

In 1991, many attacks were launched from several sides to eliminate the Kurdistan liberation movement, and after the arrest of leader Abdullah Ocalan on February 15, 1999 and his handover to the Turkish state, these attacks entered a new phase, and the Kurdistan Democratic Party was involved in these attacks and plans that continued. Over the course of 9 years.

Attacks, plans carried out in alliance with KDP from 1991-1999
13 February, 2024   04:07
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JIHAN BALKIN

The international conspiracy that began against Leader Abdullah Ocalan in 1998 continued with the handover of Leader Ocalan to the Turkish state on February 15, 1999, and the attacks by Kurdish accomplices are among the most prominent aspects of the conspiracy.

Leader Abdullah Ocalan refers to the beginning of the conspiracy with the United States’ attack on Iraq within the framework of the Greater Middle East Project, and he says in one of his arguments titled “From the Sumerian Monastic State to the People’s Republic,” he says: “Although the Kurds in Iraq were supporters of this politics, but in recent years they wanted to take other steps in Turkey." He points to complicity in Southern Kurdistan. Of course, relations between the Turkish occupation state and the parties of Southern Kurdistan, especially the Kurdistan Democratic Party, have developed more since 1991.

A meeting with the Turkish intelligence service MIT and then the attack

According to information contained in books and circulated by various media outlets, a secret meeting was held in Ankara on March 8, 1991, between Masoud Barzani’s advisor, Mohsen Dizayi, and Jalal Talabani, the Turkish Intelligence Service’s advisor, Teoman Koman, and the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ advisor, Tugay Ozgeri. The meeting resulted in cooperation and alliance against the PKK.

An estimated 6 months later, on August 5, 1991, the Turkish state attacked the Khakurk region with the participation of 5,000 soldiers and village guards, under the name “Operation Sweeping.” It continued for 16 days, and it became clear that the Kurdistan Democratic Party was the one who provided the intelligence information to Turkey in This attack.

Establishment of military and intelligence bases and Zebari’s visit to Ankara

But the Guerrilla resistance thwarted the attack, and following this attack, the Turkish occupation state built military and intelligence bases from Zakho to Hewler

On May 6, 1992, the Turkish state launched a ground attack on the Bahdinan region. At the same time, Masoud Barzani’s advisor, Hoshyar Zebari, visited Ankara on June 8 of the same year, and after meeting with Turkish officials, it was decided in a session of the parliament of Southern Kurdistan, held on June 28, extended the stay of Hammer forces in the region.

Assassinating the patriots of Southern Kurdistan and handing over the detained Guerrilla to the Turkish state

Sadiq Omar, Ali Shaaban and Hussein Agha were among the national figures who visited Leader Ocalan from Southern Kurdistan. They were assassinated by the forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on separate dates in 1992. On August 17 of the same year, the Kurdistan Democratic Party handed over the guerrillas in Kurdistan Workers' Party, Salman Alagoz, who was arrested in the Gilli district of Gulmerk, to the Turkish occupation state.

Barzani's red passport and the decision to go to war against the Kurdistan Workers' Party

In July 1992, when the KDP was negotiating with Turkey, the Turkish state granted diplomatic passports to Talabani and Barzani.

After the meeting that was held in the American capital, Washington, in the presence of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Turkey, the first decision of the parliament that was formed in Southern Kurdistan in 1992 was to launch a war against the Kurdistan Liberation Movement. After this decision, and in the month of October 1992 specifically, the Turkish forces in the coalition launched with the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a major attack was launched on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s guerrillas in Zap, Haftanin and Khakurk under the name “Tank Operation,” and according to official figures issued by the Turkish authorities, more than 20,000 soldiers and thousands of Peshmerga and village guards participated in the attack, and it continued. The war, which the PKK describes as the “Great Battle of Başur,” lasted 45 days.

On October 24, 1992, leader Beritan Hevi confronted the betrayal of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and fought until the last bullet, then she threw herself from the top of the mountain so as not to fall into the hands of the enemy. The struggle of the martyr Beritan is known today as the approach of the struggle of free women and the freedom movement.

Then-Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel later acknowledged their defeat, saying: “Turkey would have lost one and gained three in return, but it lost three and did not gain even one.”

Meeting between Barzani and the Turkish army, 1995 attack

After the major defeat, the then Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Gendarmerie, General Ashraf Bidlis, met with Masoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani in southern Kurdistan, followed by another meeting in the Salopi district of Şırnakh shortly after.

On March 19, 1995, the Turkish state, supported by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, launched a new attack on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s guerrilla in Southern Kurdistan under the name “Operation Steel.” According to the official statistics of the Turkish occupation state, 35,000 soldiers participated in the attack and continued until 2 May 1995. According to the toll revealed by ARGK, at least 800 Turkish soldiers were killed.

The Dublin Agreement and the new attack

On July 11, 1995, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan signed an agreement with the Turkish state in the Irish capital, Dublin, sponsored by the United States of America and Britain. Following the signing of this agreement, war broke out between August 26 and December 3, 1995. The major war, which was called the “Second Başur War.”

On March 6, 1996, the Turkish occupation army, under the name “Operation Falcon (Atmaja),” launched an occupation attack on the Zap and Haftanin axes.

Barzani's visit to Ankara and the new plans

On September 18, 1996, Masoud Barzani visited Ankara. Turkey asked Barzani to stay away from Talabani and fight the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, and promised him that it would supply the Barzani family with weapons and money if it accepted these conditions. It also asked him to settle Iraqi Turkmen in the villages located on the border between Iraq and Turkey. And Turkey.

The attack with 50,000 soldiers and Peshmerga and the Hewler massacre

On May 14, 1997, the alliance of the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Democratic Party launched an attack under the name “Operation Hammer” to destroy the ARGK headquarters in Zap. During the first days of the attack, in which 50,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdistan Democratic Party forces participated, a massacre occurred in Hewler. On May 16, 1997, dozens of wounded PKK guerrilla fighters, including journalists, artists and doctors, were killed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party while they were receiving treatment in Hewler.

On September 25, 1997, the alliance of the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Democratic Party launched a large-scale attack on the border region in Southern Kurdistan under the name “Operation Dawn.”

Six months after this attack, specifically in May 1998, and based on the agreement between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Turkish occupation launched another attack on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in southern Kurdistan under the name “Operation Murad.”

Washington Agreement

On September 17, 1998, Masoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani signed an agreement in the American capital, Washington, under the auspices of the then US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, and based on not harboring the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in southern Kurdistan. Subsequent information and documents revealed that this agreement came within the framework of the international conspiracy against Leader Abdullah Ocalan.

A new attack in conjunction with the February 15 plot

On September 1, 1998, leader Abdullah Ocalan announced a ceasefire, and according to information circulated by many media outlets, Erbakan’s government and the General Staff at the time claimed to adhere to the ceasefire, but they began a new major attack. In May 1999, the Turkish occupation in alliance with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, launched another attack on the Guerrilla in Southern Kurdistan under the name “Operation Sandwich,” and the Turkish army, village guards coming from Northern Kurdistan, and Kurdistan Democratic Party forces began their attack in Southern Kurdistan.

T/ Satt.

ANHA