I dont give a shit about Cem Özdemir or his party, but the last couple posts made me do some research. I will quote some official statements he made regarding the PKK:
Here he was asked why he's against the PKK and taking the Turkish "nationalist line" on the PKK?
In any case, I find it remarkable that some PKK sympathizers apparently see no problem in the fact that they implicitly or explicitly endorse terrorism as a means of political conflict resolution. And to those who portray the PKK as an organization fighting for freedom, I ask: What kind of freedom, actually? Given its Stalinist structure, what does the PKK actually mean by freedom? That is not, in fact, the freedom I mean.
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That is only and excerpt from here:
https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/cem-oezdemir/fragen-antworten/45085
Here on his own website he says that he's equally against the PKK and hardcore nationalists:
Meine Entscheidung steht: Ich möchte Ihnen als Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg dienen und alles für dieses Land geben. Cem Özdemir
www.oezdemir.de
Here he says that its right that the PKK is banned in Germany:
Beim Staatsbankett in Berlin hofft Cem Özdemir auf ein Gespräch mit dem türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "Wir sollten das Interesse der Türken vertreten, die nicht auf der Erdogan-Seite sind", sagte der Grünen-Politiker im Dlf. Viele Bundestagsabgeordnete werden dem Bankett aus...
www.deutschlandfunk.de
Here's a report about Özdemirs house being thrown at with stones. The article mentions that he has been attack by German nationalists, Turkish nationalists, Islamists as well as PKK supporters in the past:
Cem Özdemir erhält bereits seit längerem Personenschutz durch das Bundeskriminalamt. Nun hat er über Twitter mitgeteilt, dass ein Stein gegen seine Haustür geworfen wurde.
www.faz.net
I wouldnt call him an PKK supporter, there are a plenty of PKK supporters in the Linke (far left) party of Turkish origin for example, but I was never under the impression that he said anything pro PKK. But please feel free to prove me wrong. This is just the result of my 15 min research.
