MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : STATEMENT OF PKK UMBRELLA “KCK” –  TO OUR PEOPLES AND THE

 NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) –   Turkey’s AKP-MHP fascist coalition was aiming at winning the

March 31 local elections in an unprecedented unequal situation by applying maximum pressure on the opposition parties and turning the elections into a matter of Turkey’s survival and struggle against domestic and foreign operations against Turkey. The goal was give legitimacy to their rule, already undermined and weakened, socially and ideologically. They came to believe that they can uphold their power by embarking on a policy of war, both within Turkey and abroad.

But the peoples of Turkey and democratic circles dealt a major blow to the ‘survival’ demagogy of AKP-MHP, used to justify their enmity towards the Kurds, the women, the youth, the labor, and democracy.

They rejected the warmongering and fascist polices of the AKP-MHP

coalition, based on the issue of ‘national survival’. They reacted to

the anti-Kurdish policies of AKP-MHP fascism by promoting the

principle of peoples’ fraternity and the resolve and awareness for

common life.

 

      The AKP-MHP fascist coalition suffered a major defeat in Turkey

and Kurdistan. The era of state-appointed trustees hijacking the will

of the people in Kurdistan has come to an end. They may have extended

the term of some of these partisan trustees in Şirnak and other towns

by resorting to vote rigging and electoral fraud, but they couldn’t

get into the way of a great defeat in Turkey and Kurdistan. The

anti-Kurdish and anti-democratic policies of the AKP and Erdogan have

failed. The waning MHP has emerged as the money-maker of these

policies. The AKP’s distancing itself from its very initial rhetoric

and policies, which helped it come to power in 2003, led to its defeat

in March 31, 2019 elections and relegated it to the status of a

short-lived party. The continuation of the present anti-Kurdish and

anti-democratic policies will spell the end of AKP’s rule.

 

      The strategy rightly followed by HDP in the March 31 elections

will have far-reaching implications for Turkey’s political future.

Following this strategy, the democratic circles and the Kurds

initiated a new era in the democratic struggle in Turkey. The common

struggle of the peoples of Turkey and their ambitions for a democratic

administration in Turkey will play a major role in bringing about

change in the political mind-set in Turkey. The peoples of Turkey

showed their attitude and resolve to share a common fate with the

Kurds. They rejected the divisive and polarizing policies of AKP-MHP

rule and took a great step toward the democratic unity of the peoples.

The March 31 election results, if dealt with properly by Turkey’s

democratic circles, will mark a breakthrough in Turkey’s politics,

spell the end of the crises and Turkey will enjoy, in the 21st

century, a peaceful and stable political, social, economic and

cultural climate.

 

     We commend the peoples of Turkey, the Kurdish people, the labor,

the women, the youth, and all the democratic forces for their success

in the March 31 elections that created a new hope for Turkey.The

fascist AKP-MHP coalition has lost all cities that carry the potential

to lead a party to power in Turkey. It is difficult for a party to

remain in power after losing cities like Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir,

Adana, Mersin and Antalya. Having already lost in Kurdistan, the

AKP-MHP fascist coalition is at a point where they can no longer

govern Turkey.

      What has made for the AKP-MHP fascist coalition loss in these

elections was the great resistance, in recent years, of the Kurds and

democratic circles against the fascist crackdown. They managed, via

their resistance, to prevent the fascist rule from gaining total

control, keep alive the hopes of the democratic circles, and defeat

fascism on March 31. The Kurdish people’s resistance against the

harshest oppressions and their insistence on the joint struggle for

democracy together with the peoples of Turkey have created today’s

political climate. It has, once again, been proved that the Kurdish

people are the most fundamental dynamic for democracy in Turkey and

the Middle East.

     The results of this election have shown the path of the right

polices for all political forces to follow. It has been realized that

the notions of ‘democratic nation’ and ‘common homeland’ can resolve

the fundamental issues in Turkey and turn it into an exemplary

democratic country. The resistance of DTK Co-chair Leyla Güven and her

comrades in Turkish prisons and in Europe, aiming at breaking the

isolation on Mr. Ocalan and bringing down fascism, has also played an

important role in exposing the AKP-MHP fascist character and pushing

it back. Peoples of Turkey and democratic forces came to realize the

possible political outcomes that the breaking the isolation would

create in Turkey, Kurdistan, and the Middle East. This understanding

had a major effect on the defeat of the AKP-MHP fascism in the March

31 elections.

      The outcome of these elections has got the peoples of Turkey,

all political forces, as well as all international powers and

institutions to know the forces that want peace and stability in

Turkey and the policies that should be followed. The democratic union

of Turkey’s peoples which has become concrete in these elections also

shows the how of the solution to the Kurdish Question. Breaking the

isolation imposed on Leader APO and ensuring his freedom is extremely

important for the democratization of Turkey. The defeat of AKP-MHP

fascism on March 31 has also shown that all democratic forces should

participate in the struggle pioneered by Leyla Güven and other

prisoners to break the isolation imposed on Leader APO; for he will

play an important role and have great contributions to the solution of

the Kurdish Question, the democratic national unity of the peoples of

Turkey and the creation of Democratic Turkey. His 20-years-long

efforts in the Imrali prison are proof to that.

    The success of the Kurdish people and democratic forces shouldn’t

be limited to the elections alone. They should draw on this success to

totally defeat the AKP-MHP fascism and democratize Turkey. The

societal, political and psychological climate for this has already

been created. The rejection of AKP-MHP government’s anti-Kurdish

policies and their ‘national survival’ demagogy in cities and regions

that determine the cultural, economic, societal and political life in

the country has created a huge opportunity to create a change in the

mind-set and the development of democratic policies. Now all

democratic forces have a duty to defeat the AKP-MHP fascism completely

and to create a democratic Turkey. The AKP-MHP fascist alliance’s

statements that ‘there won’t be any elections for the coming 4 years

and everybody should accept the current government’s policies and stop

the struggle to change’ should be responded to by increasing the

resistance. The struggle should continue through all democratic and

legitimate means. Because what happened on March 31 was not just an

election victory; rather, it was the defeat of the AKP-MHP fascism.

The process now should serve to take down this government through

anti-war, democratic policies.

We commend the Kurdish people and the democratic forces for their

stance and success in the March 31 elections and call on all to step

up their struggle by drawing on the democratic union of the peoples of

Turkey, inspired by March 31.

 

Co-Presidency

KCK Executive Council

April 3, 2019