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MHP LEADER LIKENS KURDISH SETTLEMENT ROADMAP TO TREATY OF SEVRES, SAYS MARKS COLLAPSE OF TURKISH REPUBLIC
17:33, 03 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli has drawn
a parallel between the Treaty of Sèvres, which the Allied powers
imposed on the Ottoman government and was to create a Kurdish state
in Anatolia, with a recent agreement between the pro-Kurdish Peoples'
Democratic Party (HDP) and the government made in order to solve the
Kurdish problem, saying the agreement is a "treasonous text" that will
lead to the "collapse of the Turkish Republic," Today's Zamanreports.
A delegation representing the government and the HDP made a joint
statement on Saturday following a meeting at Dolmabahce Palace
concerning details of the roadmap, which is based on 10 articles,
aiming to solve the country's decades-long Kurdish problem. In
the joint statement, the parties unveiled the 10 articles, which
were originally penned by Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader
of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), for the progression of
settlement talks. The roadmap also includes a commitment to change
the Constitution.
Speaking at his party's weekly group meeting on Tuesday, Bahceli
slammed the agreement between the government and the HDP, of which,
he says, every article signals the "ruin" of the state.
"[They say the] PKK will convene an extraordinary congress, it will
lay down its arms and peace will come, a way for democracy will be
paved. They were also voicing [statements about] peace while taking
about the Treaty of Sèvres, but it was obvious at the time what kind
of hell it would bring to the Turkish people... this treasonous text
is the collapse of Turkish Republic," Bahceli said.
The victorious Western powers imposed the Treaty of Sèvres on the
Ottoman government at the end of World War I. The treaty was signed
on Aug. 10, 1920, and provided for the establishment of Armenian and
Kurdish states in Anatolia, but was in fact never put into effect as
it was rejected by the national liberation movement, whose success
led to its replacement by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
"There is no difference between the dirty rag of a treaty signed
in Aug. 10, 1920, and the treasonous text [agreed] upon on Feb. 28,
2015," Bahceli added.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/03/mhp-leader-likens-kurdish-settlement-roadmap-to-treaty-of-sevres-says-marks-collapse-of-turkish-republic/
17:33, 03 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli has drawn
a parallel between the Treaty of Sèvres, which the Allied powers
imposed on the Ottoman government and was to create a Kurdish state
in Anatolia, with a recent agreement between the pro-Kurdish Peoples'
Democratic Party (HDP) and the government made in order to solve the
Kurdish problem, saying the agreement is a "treasonous text" that will
lead to the "collapse of the Turkish Republic," Today's Zamanreports.
A delegation representing the government and the HDP made a joint
statement on Saturday following a meeting at Dolmabahce Palace
concerning details of the roadmap, which is based on 10 articles,
aiming to solve the country's decades-long Kurdish problem. In
the joint statement, the parties unveiled the 10 articles, which
were originally penned by Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader
of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), for the progression of
settlement talks. The roadmap also includes a commitment to change
the Constitution.
Speaking at his party's weekly group meeting on Tuesday, Bahceli
slammed the agreement between the government and the HDP, of which,
he says, every article signals the "ruin" of the state.
"[They say the] PKK will convene an extraordinary congress, it will
lay down its arms and peace will come, a way for democracy will be
paved. They were also voicing [statements about] peace while taking
about the Treaty of Sèvres, but it was obvious at the time what kind
of hell it would bring to the Turkish people... this treasonous text
is the collapse of Turkish Republic," Bahceli said.
The victorious Western powers imposed the Treaty of Sèvres on the
Ottoman government at the end of World War I. The treaty was signed
on Aug. 10, 1920, and provided for the establishment of Armenian and
Kurdish states in Anatolia, but was in fact never put into effect as
it was rejected by the national liberation movement, whose success
led to its replacement by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
"There is no difference between the dirty rag of a treaty signed
in Aug. 10, 1920, and the treasonous text [agreed] upon on Feb. 28,
2015," Bahceli added.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/03/mhp-leader-likens-kurdish-settlement-roadmap-to-treaty-of-sevres-says-marks-collapse-of-turkish-republic/