PM's adviser says Karayılan's words on Oslo leaks, Uludere ‘baseless'

The prime minister's chief adviser, Yalçın Akdoğan, said in remarks to Today's Zaman on Sunday that terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) commander Murat Karayılan was "lacking grounds" in making claims about the leaking of the Oslo talks and the Uludere tragedy in 2011.

When speaking to journalists last week, Karayılan stated that details from the secret Oslo talks between Turkish intelligence officials and members of the terrorist PKK in 2011 were leaked to the press by the religious Hizmet movement, which is inspired by well-respected Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. He further argued that the US was behind the death of 34 Kurdish civilians killed near the Iraqi border in the town of Uludere, Şırnak province, in an airstrike by Turkish jets in December 2011.

Excerpted from the article published on Sunday's Zaman, 28 April 2013, Sunday