In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), Dizayee said that people in the border areas wanted to return to their villages following the 1991 uprising in the Kurdistan Region, but accused the PKK of preventing them from doing so.
He argued that the presence of the PKK in the Kurdistan Region and in Sinjar district had precipitated the Turkish military’s attacks on targets in those areas.
The KRG’s long-standing position is that Turkey and the PKK should take their fight elsewhere and that a diplomatic solution should be found to the Kurdish issue inside Turkey.
Dizayee also said that the PKK cannot replace the KRG.
Turkey renewed its military campaign in the Kurdistan Region and northern Iraq on June 15, conducting extensive ground operations and launching dozens of airstrikes.
At least nine civilians have been killed and several other wounded.
The Turkish defense ministry said on Saturday that it had completed elements of its ground campaign, but continues to launch airstrikes.
The KRG and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), of which Dizayee is a senior member, have extensive political and economic ties with Turkey.
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, also of the KDP, visited Ankara on Friday, meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The PKK has waged a decades-long fight for Kurdish rights and autonomy in Turkey’s southeastern provinces. An estimated 40,000 people have died in the fighting.
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