“Our goal is a Turkey without terrorism, a fully independent, united, integrated and prosperous Turkey, where the dark and bloody shadow of terrorism has completely disappeared,” the Turkish president said Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the plane back Thursday from the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

In Turkey, however, its echo terrorist attack on the facilities of the Turkish Aerospace Industry (TUSAS) continues. As confirmed, the two terrorists were members of the PKK and trained in PKK camps in Northern Iraq. Authorities have launched sweep operations in 31 provinces of the country, dozens of suspected PKK members have been arrested. “We will not let the traitors breathe,” said Interior Minister Ali Gerlikaya.

Questions about Ocalan

However, at the same time that the outlawed Kurdish PKK is at the center of the hatred of the Turkish authorities, at exactly the same time the historic call of the far-right partner of President Erdogan, Devlet Bakhceli, to the founder and leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, seems to reshuffle the deck. . Bakhceli suggested that Öcalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, order his fighters to lay down their arms and declare the organization dissolved himself, in exchange for favorable legal treatment for a “democratic solution”.

The reactions were impressive. The representative of the pro-Kurdish DEM party, Aysegul Dogansaid yesterday that PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is “ready for a democratic solution” and argued that his isolation should be lifted. Ocalan, he said, “dedicated his life to the democratic solution of the Kurdish issue. He has been imprisoned on the island of Imrali for 25 years, but he expresses the will of millions of people. Ocalan, has the theoretical and practical power to transfer this process from the field of conflict and violence to the legal and political field.

The most impressive was the reaction of the Executive Council of the KCK (the Union of Kurdistan Communities representing the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq): “The Kurdish people, with all its structures and components, will take as a basis the process to be developed by Ocalan. Öcalan is the interlocutor and the negotiator of the will of our movement and our people and the democratic solution of the Kurdish problem. There is no different approach or stance on this issue.”

The latest developments and the impressive commitment to the imprisoned Ocalan shows that the political solution promoted by the Turkish government also expresses the will of the organization to a large extent. Although no one can rule out the negative dynamics that individual PKK cores can develop.