Chapter 702: Fight a Prepared Battle
The armistice talks between the Turkish government and the Kurds took place in Kayseri, a very important city at the forefront of the fighting. The Turkish side sent a delegation composed of the deputy prime minister and the minister of defense, as well as the foreign minister, and a delegation of the Kurds, consisting of Ogalan and two respected elders, as well as the deputy chief of the general staff of the armed forces.
The top echelons of the Turkish government and military are unable to hold on to the current situation and have to find ways to gain time to accumulate strength, on the one hand, to mobilize troops to the front, and on the other hand, to ease the pressure of public opinion in the country and the internal contradictions that are about to erupt.
The forward troops of the local Kurdish armed forces have now reached the front line of Kayseri and Sivas, and they are still increasing their troops, and a decisive battle may break out at any time. However, the army's mobile strength is seriously insufficient, and it will take a considerable amount of time to transfer troops and prepare for war.
Demonstrations erupted in major cities in the country, with strong protests against the government's provocation of war, resulting in a large number of casualties among officers and soldiers, and a number of people became Kurdish prisoners, whose parents, wives and children were the most troublesome.
The parliamentarians are also disappointed by the continuous failures of the government and the military, and are doubly dissatisfied with the military spending that has been filled, which has affected the country's economic construction, and is a huge pressure on the finances, and fighting a war is the most expensive, although Turkey cannot be as rich as the United States, but the war in the past six months has cost at least tens of billions of dollars!
"The condition of the Turkish government is that the Kurds immediately release all the Turkish soldiers who have been imprisoned, return all the weapons and equipment that have been taken, especially the forty-one fighter planes and transport planes, and retreat to the areas of residence south of Bingel, and the army must be disbanded and the power to patrol and guard the border must be handed back to the government army."
"The government can allow you to gain a moderate degree of autonomy within the larger framework of Turkey, which includes the establishment of a Kurdish government and your own police, which will provide you with loans, will finance your schools, hospitals, and roads, and allow you to have a 12,000-strong guard to deal with emergencies." said the Deputy Prime Minister.
"The Kurds resolutely refuse to promise limited autonomy, and from the time of your founding, you have deceived us with such lies, and in the end you have been repressed and massacred by force, and for the Kurds, the Turkish government and distrust are equal terms."
"We have few conditions, first of all, the Turkish government must agree to us to establish our own state, and with Kayseri and Sivas as the dividing line between the two sides, and all the mountainous areas in the south will be owned by the future Ku and Germany, which is the basis and bottom line of our negotiations."
"The war was initiated by the Turkish government, and it caused a large number of casualties among our people, and the economic losses are incalculable, and you must compensate for it! As for the captured aircraft and weapons and equipment, it is impossible for us to return them to you. ”
"The problem of the captives is easy to solve, although they have been imprisoned, they have food and drink, their wounds have been well treated, and they have not suffered any injustice, and the Kurds are not like you Turks, who have the habit of mistreating prisoners!" Ocalan said.
In fact, it is not difficult to negotiate, that is, the sky-high price is to pay back, in addition to the strength but also pay attention to psychological tactics, the two sides must be sabre-rattling at the beginning, this is the role of momentum, and then you retreat or you advance and I retreat, chop and chop until the conditions acceptable to both parties are reached, and the victory is over.
The bottom line of the Turkish government is that it must not engage in territorial division, and any other conditions are negotiable, while the bottom line of the Kurdish people is that they must divide and build the country, and other conditions can be dispensed with, so a marathon of negotiations began.
The delegations of both sides initially met once a day, slapping the table and arguing loudly, but after a week, everyone felt tired, so they changed it to a meeting every three days, and found that there was no way to negotiate the results, so it became a weekly meeting.
"The Turkish government will never agree to divide up so much land, even though it is a barren mountainous area, and you will never be able to negotiate this issue, and it must be resolved by force, and there should be no illusions about it."
"Through satellite and drone surveillance, the Turkish military is massively increasing troops in Kayselli, and at least 200,000 elite troops have gathered in the Talas area, which is also Turkey's last hole card, but, with the strength of others, the Kurdish army will be very dangerous, you immediately order all units to implement the second set of combat plans, and must not get together to conduct public activities, and must find a way to hide themselves from the detection of the other party."
"More than 600 Russian T-90 main battle tanks and more than 30 Tornado multiple launch rocket systems have entered the forefront, as well as a large number of self-propelled guns and towed artillery, in addition, three squadrons of Su-27 fighters and three squadrons of F-16 Falcon fighters have also been stationed at the airport."
"The Turkish government is trying to mobilize all the resources it can to strangle the impending emergence of a Kuer-Germany, and the negotiations are a means of delaying time! This time they have learned their lesson, the defense of military bases is extremely tight, and if the other side is on guard, it is impossible to think about it if they want to implement the tactics and means of some time ago again. After Wu Chen received Akyol's call, he directly dispelled his thoughts.
What kind of joke, do you think Turkey, a military power, NATO's second largest permanent army, is so easy to mess with? Do you think the Kurd's state-building war ended so easily? Do you think that if the other party is broken, he will agree to the conditions of the Kurds?
This kind of thinking is very naïve, by no means the mature thinking of a military strategist, the contrast between the two sides is too great, if you want to eat 200,000 people in Turkey, the Kurds will have to pay a price of 300,000 or 400,000, or even more!
"Headmaster, we, your students, are not too optimistic about the current situation, the Kurds have mobilized to the greatest extent for this nation-building war, and the strength of the troops around the temporary ceasefire line has reached 450,000, most of whom are hiding in the mountains and woods to avoid aerial reconnaissance."
"The five infantry divisions that have been exposed, are busy digging field fortifications, especially southeast of Kayseri, and we have used the terrain to set up three blockade lines, and we have laid out a large number of minefields at night, and planted anti-infantry mines and anti-tank mines."
"The rocket artillery brigade and the artillery brigade are also taking advantage of the night time, slowly driving to the front line little by little, and under the command of mercenary professionals, they have also built two field airfields, which are covered by branches and dead grass during the day, and when the time comes, fighters and transport planes can be taken off and landed at any time." Akyol said respectfully.