UMongameli Recep Tayyip Erdoğan uzibophezele "ukuqothula bonke abashokobezi," eqhathanisa kaningi ukusebenza kwamasosha ezokuphepha ngokumelene ne-Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) engavunyelwe neMpi Yenkululeko eyaholela ekusungulweni kweRiphabhulikhi yaseTurkey.
“Qiniseka ukuthi asizange sivumele futhi ngeke sivumele noma yiziphi izinyathelo ezingalimaza imiphefumulo yabafel’ ukholo noma zidabule izinhliziyo zomakadebona bethu. Sisempini engaguquki kuze kube sekugcineni ngokumelene nazo zonke izinhlangano zabashokobezi, ”kusho u-Erdoğan ngoMashi 17.
“Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, sizowaqothula wonke amaphekula kuleli zwe ngemvume kaNkulunkulu,” esho.
“Kusukela ngoJulayi odlule amasosha ethu namaphoyisa angaphezu kuka-300 abulawelwe ukholo. Kodwa uyazi ukuthi sazuzani? Sibonise kokubili abangani bethu kanye nezitha zethu ukuthi la mazwe ayizwe lethu. Lokhu bekubalulekile. Lokhu kuyimpumelelo kangangokuthi singayiqhathanisa kuphela [neMpi yaseGallipoli kanye neMpi Yokuzimela, ”kwengeza u-Erdoğan.
ITurkey ezinyangeni ezisanda kwedlula ihlaselwe udlame olubi kakhulu eminyakeni edlule, ngemuva kwenqubo yokuthula entekenteke ngoJulayi 2015 kulandela ukumiswa kwengxabano okweminyaka emibili nengxenye phakathi kombutho wezokuvikela kanye nezidlamlilo ze-PKK.
Impi yaseGallipoli eyaqala ngo-Ephreli 1915 kwaze kwaba nguJanuwari 1916 kuthiwa yazala ukuqaphela kwezwe okwaholela eMpini Yokuzimela eholwa nguMustafa Kemal Atatürk.
NgoMashi 16, umongameli wacindezela kakhulu iphalamende ukuthi lisuse ukuvikeleka okusemthethweni kwamasekela eqembu lamaKurd eligxile enkingeni iPeoples' Democratic Party (HDP), alisola ngokuchema ne-PKK.
