TURKEY:Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) declared the end of the ceasefire which was on force since last August 2010.

PKK says unilateral truce over

Kurdish guerrillas will now attack the Turkish army but will be in a self defense position

Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) announced the end of the unilateral ceasefire which was declared on 13 August 2010.

The umbrella organization of the PKK, Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) released a written statement and declared the end of the ceasefire which was on force since last August. The organization blamed AKP government's negative politics against Kurdish people.

But KCK said the guerrillas will now attack the Turkish army but will stay in a self-defense position. “Our guerrilla units will follow an active-defense strategy” the statement read.

Active-defence means -as previously defined by the PKK- that Kurdish guerrillas may target the military if there is a preparation of an attack and can make retaliatory attacks.

KCK blamed Turkish government on the failure of the peace process and said that Turkish side continued military operations against the Kurdish guerrillas and it's campaign against the Kurdish politicians.

According to ANF's statistics more that 40 guerrillas were killed by the Turkish army during the unilateral ceasefire period. At least 800 Kurdish politicians were also arrested since last August.

KCK said it tried every way to build a peaceful dialogue with Turkish state to find a peaceful solution to the Kurdish Question but there was no response from the AKP government.

KCK listed the reasons which led it to end the unilateral ceasefire as follows:

The operations against the Kurdish guerrillas and politicians continued but the number of the operations were lower than usual due to the season.

The demand of Kurdish politicians to defend themselves in their mother language was not recognized by the Turkish courts. Their right to defend themselves were denied, no one was released and the trial became a political trial.

The prison conditions of our leader Abdullah Ocalan was not improved. The dialogue between him and the state did now reach to a level of negotiations.