Addressing the parliament on the central administration budget for 2008, deputy for Mus province Sirri Sakik said the PKK was an issue that could not be denied, and should be discussed openly.
“If you talk about the PKK with Bush tête-à-tête in US, let us talk here too. It is our debt (owing) to disarm and silence arms,” he said.
Sakik said that if shutting down parties was a solution, they would not have been back in parliament today. In reference to the threat of legal action to strip them of their positions as parliamentary deputies put to prison, Sakik said the DTP deputies only crime was to say that, “there were Kurds in this country.”
Despite the practice of broadcasting in Kurdish on Turkish state television the country had not been separated.
“How can 15 to 20 million people of Kurdish mother tongue express themselves in half an hour?” Sakik said, adding how was it that brothers one had 100 television networks while the other should even get half and hour.
