Official Ankara not to hold any dialogue with PKK: ambassador

"None of the countries holds a political dialogue with terrorists. Not only Turkey, but also none of the countries will negotiate with terrorists," Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilich told Trend News on May 29.

Leader of the PKK terrorist organization Murat Karayilan said that his organization is ready to negotiate with Ankara.

Karayilan urged Ankara to use this opportunity and said that if Turkey misses the opportunity, it will not gain it any more.

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was established with the support of the Soviet Union in 1970s. The party committed acts of terrorism against civilians and military targets in Turkey in late 1980s. The PKK is considered to be a terrorist organization in many countries. The organization's chief goal is to establish independent Kurdish state in the South-Eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq.

The center for the organization activities is Qandil mountains in Northern Iraq. Turkish military forces are carrying out operations in these areas to destroy terrorists.

In 1988 separatist trends appeared among the Kurdish population of Iraq's Halabja town. The then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Halabja population to prevent the trend. The chemical weapon claimed about 1 million lives.

Despite Turkish and Iraq governments have negotiated on joint fight against PKK terrorist organization on numerous occasions, the talks failed due to chaos and tensions within the country.

/Trend News/