KURDS DECLARED CEASE-FIRE

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[04:45 pm] 04 October, 2006

>From October 1 the Union of Kurdistan Organizations declared cease-fire
calling on the Turkish authorities "to give up their attempts to
solve the problem by force and to start negotiations".

This was the order of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish
people, who is sentenced to life imprisonment in Turkey. The Kurds
have decided to follow it, as "Turkey displays a desire to settle
separate issues".

President of "Kurdistan" Committee, editor-in-chief of newspaper
"Mesopotamia" Rash Charqyazeh says that after 2.5 years of bloodshed
between the Kurds and the Turks the international community and the
Turkish and Kurdish public and political circles are seriously
concerned and make statements about the necessity of a new
cease-fire. The previous one was violated on June 1, 2004.

"Cease-fire does not mean weakness; it means decisiveness to take new
political and diplomatic steps", says Midia Rezan, representative of
the Caucasian wing of the Kurdistan Organizations Union>

According to member of "Kurdistan" Committee, member of the National
minorities committee adjunct to the RA President Knyaz Hasanov,
during the last 20 years the Turks have leveled to earth more than
5000 Kurdish villages, more than 10 000 Kurdish people have been
sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism and tortured. "They have
also blown up a kindergarten where 11 children died and more than 10
were injured", he added.

And still, the Kurds of Armenia condemn every kind of terrorist act,
whoever might commit them.