GUL: TURKEY HAS MATURED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON KURDISH ISSUE
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
27.05.2009 20:08 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "You can refer to it as either the ‘Kurdish issue’
or ‘Southeast issue’, but it is the most important problem facing
Turkey," Gul told reporters in Kyrgyzstan, where he met Kyrgyz
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Prime Minister Igor Chudinov.
"This issue will grow larger the longer we take to solve it," he added.
He also said all Turkish political parties, including the pro-Kurdish
Democratic Society Party, or DTP, need to contribute to efforts to
solve this issue.
"This is everybody’s problem. Everybody needs to be constructive and
act as facilitator in order to solve this issue in a maturity that
befits Turkey," he said.
The issue has been high on Turkey’s agenda since Gul said earlier
this month that the country has never been closer to a solution to
the decades-long Kurdish issue. He also said any solution should not
be left only in the hands of the government, urging for contributions
from opposition parties.
Gul’s remarks were interpreted as an olive branch extended to the
opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, whose leader, Deniz
Baykal, previously criticized the president and the government for
disclosing the latest developments on the Kurdish problem.
The president gave the first hint of a resolution to the Kurdish
problem while traveling to Iran in March. "Good things will happen on
the Kurdish issue," he said, declining to provide details, Hurriyet
reported.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
