CENTRAL NEWS
Speaking during a programme on the Political Agenda programme of Medya TV, remarks made by Kurdish politician Mehmet Hatip Dicle drew attention. Stating that the democratic answer to genocide cannot be seeked in the courtrooms and parliament buildings of the perpetrator, Dicle emphasised that the answer to the Kurdistan issue is organisation.
The former BDP politician was instantly annulled after major votes in the 2011 election and was replaced by a member of the AKP, who had come sixth in the election, with a much smaller vote.
Explaining the current situation in Northern Kurdistan, Hatip stated: “The peoples of North (Kurdistan) see with the experiments being carried out that the state has a new concept. And it attacks all Kurds. In other words, it is making preperations for the Kurdish genocide.”
“This is why we show the Mandela democratic actions in 1955 as an example. With democratic actions, there is no successful way that revolution can be achieved. What needs to be done is achieving an organised society, and when needs be, as Mr. Abdullah Ocalan expresses in his project, is the democratic peoples’ war.”
Hatip analysed the true meaning of the revolutionairy peoples’ war, and flaws in it’s practice. “This was misunderstood in Kobane.”
“I did not tell you to carry out a guerrilla war in the cities. I told you to carry out the revolutionary peoples’ war. So the people are organised, and the people are fought with,” Hatip quoted the Peoples’ Leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
“This is clear,” says Hatip Dicle. “And to an extent, this was implemented in Efrin. In Efrin, there was a peoples war.”
“What we must do in northern Kurdistan, our revolutionary goals, must be to organise the peoples. And if need be, they should be able to pick up arms to attack. In this context, I believe the peoples are conscious.”
“Our people have not surrendered. So why are they quiet? They must understand the ongoing processes properly, and accordingly envision an Efrin. Yes, maybe Efrin has fallen, but we did not lose in Efrin. We may have lost footholds in the war, but the war has not been lost. There is still a great will being shown against the occupation in Efrin, Serekaniye and other places. “
