Opposition leader says govt sent a bureaucrat to talk with calan – Duvar English

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Opposition Y (Good) Party chair Meral Akener has confirmed the allegations of the government having sent a bureaucrat to the mral Island to talk with jailed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah calan.

Akener said that the government had assigned someone from the judiciary for the task and that although she knew who it was, she would not reveal the name.

They (the rulership) have recently sent someone to mral, asked for help. I know who it is, someone who used another name (not to be exposed). It would be dishonorable for me to reveal (the name). If the person were a politician, I would say it (the name). They have sent someone from the judiciary. The person went there by changing their name, Akener told journalist Fatih Altayl on May 1 on Habertrk TV channel.

The allegations of a government delegation having held a meeting with calan initially came to the foreground with the reporting of journalist Amed Dicle on April 10. The journalist said that when the government could not get the answer they wanted during the meeting with calan, the jailed PKK leaders isolation was aggravated and disciplinary punishment was given.

On April 28, jailed former Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta told the daily Cumhuriyet that the alleged meeting between the government and calan was also confirmed by my sources. When they (the rulership) couldnt get a result in mral, they have preferred to increase the oppression against Kurdish on the field and back up (Kurdish Islamist political party) HDA-PAR.

A similar confirmation came from journalist Murat Arel who said that the alleged meeting between senior bureaucrats and calan took place on March 28. Sources to whom you can ask this meeting are limited. They dont want to say anything with regards to the content (of the meeting). We dont know what they talked inside. What has been reflected in the press is that some offers were made and these offers were not accepted. When I asked (my resources about this), it was a meeting of this sort, Arel told Halk TV on April 28.

Presidential spokesperson brahim Kaln, however, denied the existence of such a meeting with calan.I would like to express that this claim is a clear lie. These are the claims made by certain circles to gain a political advantage. It is not possible for them to get a result from this. There was no meeting, Kaln said on April 26.

calan was arrested in 1999 and is serving a life sentence on mral Island located in the south of the Sea of Marmara.

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