Ankara - Kurdish rebel leader Mr Abdullah Ocalan's criticism of his guerrilla fighters, in which he compared them to "murderers", is aimed at launching a new phase in the struggle for a separate homeland, DEM news agency, which is close to his PKK party, said yesterday.
"If there is no political solution, the guerrilla is the solution," DEM quoted Mr Ocalan as saying in a telephoned speech on a Kurdish satellite television station late on Sunday. "If the guerrilla heeds criticism, it will fight and win," he said.