Erdogan: No more talks with PKK

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said there will be no more talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Democratic People’s Party (HDP) or any other organizations associated with them.

“We know that the only goal of the separatist terror organization is to fulfil the duty it has been tasked with by its master and completing the contract it has been given,” Erdoğan said on Wednesday, addressing a large group of village heads at a regular meeting at his presidential palace in Ankara.

“So in the coming period, neither the separatist terror organization, nor the party under its control, nor other structures will ever be accepted as counterpart. That affair is over,” he added.

Erdogan said: “Those who carry weapons, and those who support them, will pay for this betrayal.” He called on PKK’s youngsters to surrender before it is too late.

“If those involved in such actions feel sorry and surrender themselves to our security forces, our government and nation will open their arms to them in compassion,” he added.

“We want to see you as children obedient to your families, country and nation, not as lifeless bodies on street corners, mountains, river beds and as prisoners behind bars.”

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan denied earlier claims that the government is conducting secret talks with the imprisoned leader of the PKK Abdullah Öcalan or any other PKK leaders.