BDP Demirtaş: Results show polarized Turkey / WOMEN & ERDOGAN WINNERS

POLARIZED TURKEY : ….. for  the future only much harder times ahead  – nothing else  (MESOP)    

31-3-2014 – MESOP  – In a statement assessing the results of local elections, BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said the results have revealed the presence of a very sharp polarization in Turkey. BDP co-chair said the process of local elections should be discussed for a long time for it didn’t witness any discussion about local elections and passed instead as if a process of general elections.

Remarking that the BDP reached 80 percent in the Kurdish region before the elections, BDP co-chair said the party had the potential to receive more votes but failed to do so because of the ongoing imprisonment of its politicians, the discrimination it has faced and the lack of media support for the party. Demirtaş said the state-run Anadolu Agency and TRT imposed an embargo on the BDP and gave no coverage to its propaganda within this process.

According to Demirtaş, women are the only winners of the local elections and that they have achieved a great success in both BDP and HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party).

He said it was very important that BDP made AKP suffer a downfall in the areas it competed the AKP, and managed to increase the number of its municipalities.

BDP co-chair remarked that they would conduct researches in the areas where BDP has lost and received less votes. Demirtaş said BDP stood by all the promises it made before the elections, and would be doing its best to fulfill them and conducting a much more comprehensive work in the coming period. He said local elections have been a kind of rehearsal for the general elections when -he added- they expected to achieve a greater success. Drawing attention to the success BDP and HDP have achieved, Demirtaş said it was not easy to achieve this as an opposition and grassroots movement.