The Turkish nationalist power is striving to destroy any political representation
of the Kurdish populations. Since the 1990s, pro-Kurdish parties have beenrepressed, as is the case today with the HDP (People's Democratic Party). A lookback at more than thirty years of repression and political segregation againstthe Kurds in Turkey. ---- The Peoples' Democratic Party (Halklarin DemokratikPartisi, HDP), the "pro-Kurdish" party, is today the 3rd party in terms of numberof votes in Turkey. The political representation of the Kurds frightens theTurkish nationalist power, despite its constant efforts to slow down itsprogress. Once again, and this since 2021, procedures are underway to ban thepro-Kurdish party in Turkey and prevent it from running in the next legislativeelections.Since the 1990s a dozen pro-Kurdish parties have been dissolved. Last November13, the explosion of a bomb in Istanbul which killed six people, gave a newopportunity to the Turkish nationalist authorities to make a direct, andcompletely artificial, link between terrorism, PKK and HDP. More recently, theConstitutional Court requested the suspension of public aid distributed to theHDP. Yet it is legal and authorized. According to the prosecutor, the party isaccused of having links with Kurdish terrorist organizations. This crackdown bythe Turkish nationalist government is yet another reminder of the bloody clashesthat took place in the 1980s and 1990s, and the resurgence of violence since thefailed coup attempt in 2016.A SUSTAINED ATTEMPT TO ERASE THE KURDISH WORDThe banning of Kurdish parties has of course a long history. Since 1990, sevenKurdish parties have been created and have been banned by the ConstitutionalCouncil. In the 2000s, the pro-Kurdish party tried to make alliances withleft-wing parties in order to pass the 10% representativeness threshold. In 2007and 2011, the party presented independent candidates• because there was nocoalition, and about thirty Kurdish MPs formed the first Kurdish group in theAssembly. In 2015, in order to obtain at least 10% of the vote in the nationalelections, the HDP decided to change its strategy and presented itself as anindependent political force.The HPD is today the great democratic force in Turkey, beyond the sole interestsof the Kurdish populations.D.R., 2014After the coup attempt in July 2016, nine Kurdish MPs were arrested. It istherefore not the first time that the pro-Kurdish party has been threatened witha ban. However, despite the ethnic argument, the leaders of the HPD and itsco-president are not Kurds. The deputy of the constituency of Diyarbakir (or Amedin Kurdish), Garo Paylan, is of Armenian origin for example.What is important today is that the party is supported by other left parties suchas Yesil (ecologist), or the extreme left party DSIP. The HDP has become theparty of the country, and at the same time federates left and far left movementsin Turkey. Thus the party, in its program, addresses various social issues suchas ecology, women's rights, the rights of LGBT people. But its "pro-Kurdish"positioning, its decentralized territorial management and its denunciation ofsegregation is the source of its links with the PKK. As a result, the nationalalliance, now made up of six parties, including the center-left KemalistRepublican Party and right-wing nationalist and Islamist parties, refuses toengage in official dialogue with the HDP.A POLITICAL COALITION WITH THE REST OF THE TURKISH LEFTThe Kurds, for their part, do not support dialogue with the alliance eitherbecause the current leader of the nationalist party, Iyi ("Good Party"), was theMinister of the Interior and the main instigator of the anti-Kurdish crackdownthat took place in southeastern Turkey during the 1990s. Most of its leaders comefrom the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), ie the Gray Wolves. Another factor thatshould not be underestimated is the prosecutor's request to the CouncilGO BEYOND THE KURDISH QUESTIONHowever, Turkey is not yet totally a dictatorial country, counter-powers, evenweak, still resist. The question that arises is whether Erdogan wants to dissolvethe HDP in the coming months. In an interview granted to a French media,Professor Ahmet Insel of the University of Galatasaray confirms that thechallenge is to gradually prevent the HDP from being able to represent itself: "Ibelieve that Tayyip Erdogan would also like to delay things, so that 'frommid-February, the majority changes, the President of the Constitutional Councilchanges and that a majority more committed to its cause is able to decide inplace of the current majority of the Constitutional Council. So I think that Mr.Erdogan also does not have 100% control of the Constitutional Council yet andthat he is waiting for the majority to change gradually.[1]The huge demonstrationwhich took place on January 15 in Turkey, and which brought together all theforces critical of the Erdogan regime (feminist activists, ecologists, tradeunions, students) decided to form a coalition before the 2023 legislative elections.In the event that the HDP cannot stand for election, this grand coalition hasseveral political parties that can do so in its place. This shows that thiscoalition is scary, first to Erdogan, as well as to the national alliance behindhim. Moreover, the latest terrorist attack in Paris also shows that the threat isnot only in Turkey. This reveals that other threats, rendered invisible by thefar right, exist in Europe, such as political parties like the PEJ (PartiEgalitaire et Justice) in France, which represented the AKP (President Erdogan'sparty) in of the last municipal elections in France.The following questions then arise: Why has the presence of this party never beenquestioned? Because the bosses in Europe have strong ties to the current rulingTurkish nationalist alliance? Or is it the Gray Wolves? Why are they still notconsidered a terrorist organization? Why have the grants that fund theseorganizations in Europe not been suspended? Finally, is it really the ethniccomposition of the "Kurdish" parties like the HDP today in Turkey, or the linkswith the PKK, considered a "terrorist" group by France and by several Europeancountries, which threatens peace?? No.Perhaps it would be better to turn the question around and talk about thisTurkish nationalism which ignores the Kurds and engages in a separatism whichthreatens the peace of the Kurds in Turkey and elsewhere, such as in Rojava oreven here in France.Muhsin (UCL Paris Northeast)To validate[1]"The Kurds, angry people. Episode 1/3 Turkey: oppressed minority, covetedelectorate", France Culture, January 16, 2023.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Turquie-30-ans-de-repression-des-partis-prokurdes-par-Ankara_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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