During an interview with NRT, Aydar said that Turkey’s problem is with the Kurds not with the PKK.
He said that the group is ready to meet with the KDP officials for the sake of unity between Kurds, adding that the party should know that when something bad happens in the Kurdistan Region the PKK is the first forces to help peshmerga forces.
Aydar said that the PKK should not be considered as a foreign force as it has more than 40 years of armed struggle in the Kurdish region.
Turkey has dozens of military bases in the Region in where there are no PKK fighters, he said, adding that the country wants to massacre the Kurdish people like the Armenian people and to eradicate the Kurdish identity and the PKK does not accept this.
Turkey routinely violates Iraqi sovereignty as a part of its campaign against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region and northern Iraq. The PKK has waged a decades-long armed struggle for Kurdish rights and autonomy in southeastern Turkey. Many of its bases are in the Kurdistan Region.
At least twelve civilians and two Iraqi border guard commanders have been killed in Turkish airstrikes since last June, when “Operation Claw-Eagle” began.
On April 23, Ankara renewed its military campaign against the PKK in Duhok by launching “Operation Claw-Lightning,” using helicopter-borne troops and airstrikes.
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