Tas called for the Kurdish people to take action against the February 15
conspiracy and showed them the method: "The Kurdish people exposed the
language and path of resistance. This is serhildan."

Ozgur Politica    (Ozgur Politica is a pro PKK punblication in Turkish)
(Translated Text)
Feb 14, 2001

PKK Council of Leaders member Nizamettin Tas called the people to serhildan (popular uprisings, equivalent
of the word intifada) using every possibility available on the occasion of the second anniversary of the
international conspiracy against PKK President Abdullah Ocalan.

Participating by telephone on the "Gundem" (Agenda) program on MEDYA TV the other evening, Tas made
various statements concerning the anniversary of the February 15, 1999 abduction of Ocalan in Kenya.

Tas gave detailed explanations concerning the roles of the countries involved in this international act of
piracy and what the people should do in response. Tas said that the Kurdish people had expressed their
political stance thus far and would continue to do so in a stronger manner in the future. "The Kurdish
people exposed the language and path of resistance. This is serhildan," Tas said, continuing, "The Kurdish
people will realize democracy with their own hands and without entering any expectations, and the
resistance to the February 15 process will rise. The Kurdish people will show that they are standing tall on
that day and will express every type of demand through democratic means."

Don't limit to February 15

Tas said that activities must not be limited to just the one day February 15 and to the Kurds, adding
that the process required alliance of the people at the commonest level. Tas called on women, children,
and youths to take the lead in activities, and continued as follows: "Serhildan must be made
continuous and achieve a rich content. Every type of activity must be realized, from closing shop shutters
to boycotts to not going to school or work; a serhildan people must be created."

The mountain path is open

Tas said that the guerrillas would further develop their positions on the second anniversary of the
conspiracy, and continued to say the following: "All Kurdish youths must prepare themselves for the
mountains, if necessary. The mountain path is not closed. Kurdish youths must prepare themselves to be
able to act with a self-sacrificial spirit not just in the political struggle but as potential guerrillas to whom
work might fall in the mountains just as in the metropolises."

Planned by England

Tas underlined that the February 15 conspiracy had been arranged by the US, Israel, England, and Turkey
and that Russia, Europe, and Greece had laid a foundation for it. Tas added that England had planned
the conspiracy, while US and Israel had given technical support. Tas said that the role of Greece
must be especially well understood, adding that even if the aim of the powers, especially Greece, who took
part in the conspiracy was the PKK and the Kurdish people through the person of PKK President Abdullah
Ocalan, in essence it was a question of a trap against Turkey. Tas underscored that what the conspiracy
aimed at was dragging the Kurds and Turks into a blind war, a war of revenge, and warned that, "If a
lesson is not learned from this and it is wanted to end the conspiracy at the stage it has come to with an
execution, again, this is what would happen."

Tas said that Kurds, both at home and abroad, had put up great resistance for two years against the
multi-faceted provocations of all the forces who wanted to gain from war between the Kurds and
Turks, and that the determining factor in this game not holding was the Democratic Republic and Peace
project developed by PKK President Abdullah Ocalan and supported by the PKK and the Kurdish people.
Tas said that, contrary to what had been expected over the past two years, the PKK had proven despite
all difficulties that it could take the vanguard from the aspect of guerrilla force and uniting of
administration, the organization and people and stressed that this had resulted in the conspiracy
failing to an important degree.

The timing is appropriate

OZGUR POLITIKA writer Metin Aycicek and journalist Irfan Cure were studio guests on the "Gundem"
program. Aycicek said that the new strategy developed by the PKK had secured Turkey important
means against the conspiracy aimed at annihilation of the Kurdish people through the person of Ocalan,
adding, "The project broke the racist-chauvinist structure in Turkey. It made entering the EU easier. A
drop in inflation occurred."

Journalist Cure, for his part, noted that the US and Europe had played active roles in the conspiracy and
said the following: "The PKK's new strategy is of the characteristic that everyone can stand behind it from
the aspect of the US's and Europe's new concepts regarding the Caucasus and Middle East."

Agar had Okkan killed

PKK Council of Leaders member Nizamettin Tas said that Mehmet Agar and his gang were behind the
recent murder of Diyarbakir Security Director Gaffar Okkan and five police officers. "Hizbullah is not behind
the assassination," Tas said, continuing, "Even if it was Hizbullah, Agar and his circle were behind them,
because the Hizbullah is a contra-guerrilla organization. It is an organization brought about by
the state and JITEM [gendarmerie intelligence unit]."

Tas said that the people of Kurdistan had stood up for the funerals in Amed and Urfa because they had
seen that the murder of Gaffar Okkan and Fevzi Sihanlioglu were assaults against democracy, adding,
"The people took a stance against the profiteering gangs. If the people hadn't taken such a stance, the
profiteering circles were going to carry out a bigger plan."
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