Radikal/Turkish Daily News
By Mesut Hasan Benli
October 2, 2007
An International Conference looking into how the Kurdish issue can be dealt with was held in the eastern Anatolian city of Diyarbakır over the weekend. At the conference attendees and speakers from various countries and fields discussed how the Kurdish issue can be resolved. At the end of the conference speakers made a call to end the violence.
“If Atatürk [the founder of the Turkish Republic ] were alive, he would agree with their demands,” said Professor Michael Gunter from the U.S. , while columnist Cengiz Çandar made interesting statements concerning the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party's (DTP) relations with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). “What good is it for people to have a DTP that has no organic relations with the PKK,” Çandar said in his speech at the conference. Full Text
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