Lawyer Rezan Sarıca, who also took part in the last five meetings held in İmralı, emphasized that Leader Öcalan had foreseen what will happen in Syria from the beginning, and emohasised that, “Mr. Öcalan tried to prevent this.”
All applications filed to meet with Leader Öcalan in İmralı Type-F High Security Closed Prison have been left unanswered and effectively rejected since 7 August. The lawyer of the Asrın Law Office, Rezan Sarıca, who took part in the past 5 meetings said that Leader “Öcalan has been carrying out a march of peace since 1993. Mr. Öcalan insists on a unifying policy. However, the state insists on non-settlement policies.”
He predicted what will happen in Syria
Referring to their meeting with Leader Öcalan on May 2, Sarıca said: “Mr. Öcalan put forward a declaration that we can call a 7-item declaration of democracy in that meeting. He made it very clear how the society was separated and how its texture was disintegrated. That is why a deep social consensus was needed. He showed that democratic politics should be carried out.
Again, both the issues he emphasized in the meeting on May 2 and the call he made on August 7 reveals that he foresaw what will happen in Syria from the beginning. Mr. Ocalan tried to prevent this. Because he saw that this would create very important and historical problems. He revealed that the historical Turkish-Kurdish unity he talked about each time should be researched, and that the reasons for the deterioration of this unity should be investigated and eliminated, and only then could a policy of unity be accomplished.
But he also predicted that the opposite policy could be put forward. He emphasized that there should be a solution within the integrity of Syria, but this should not be put forward with a policy that denies the peoples, but rather as a democratic constitutional solution based on local governments, accepting differences.
Full emphasis was made to be sensible towards Turkey’s sensitivity. This was in fact a call for a democratic solution that would coincide with the Turkish-Kurdish historical unity. ”
Stressing that the consequences of the events in northern and eastern Syria cannot be understood sufficiently both as a society and politically, Sarıca said: “Mr. Ocalan predicts that this could cause historical irreparable wounds between Turks and Kurds. He was trying to stop it. We are still in the middle of these developments. In order to achieve this, we need to have uninterrupted negotiations with Mr. Öcalan.”
Leader Ocalan was captured on October 9, 1998, as a result of an international conspiracy of politics, following his removal from Syria. Sarica indicated that this conspiracy continues today, he said: “Turkey’s intervention in northern and eastern Syria took place precisely at such a time. If we have seen how this conspiracy has not been achieved in the past 20 years, we need to see that they choose not to solve the Kurdish problem on a democratic basis.
Therefore, this policy of war should be abandoned. We say that the democratic politics of Mr. Öcalan should be carried out. At the time of the conspiracy, Mr. Ocalan had taken a step that would open the way for democratic politics. He had chosen to travel to Europe. Now, the intervention against North and East Syria, which was historically coincided with October 9, has started. Just as there was social solidarity and responsibilityfor the interview with Mr. Öcalan, such responsibility and integration and solidarity should be present today.
Today, what is happening in North-East Syria is in fact very serious traps for the Kurds. Both the Kurds and the democratic public need to be very careful with these pitfalls of regional and sovereign powers. ”
