Senior PKK figure urges CHP ally with HDP for snap elections
A co-chair of the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK), an umbrella network that includes the PKK, said in a statement to a PKK-linked TV channel that the Republican People's Party (CHP) should form an alliance with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and run in snap elections.Speaking to Mednuçe TV, Bese Hozat, said they will support the CHP on the condition it forms this alliance.
She made a similar call in March, saying: "It is very important for the CHP to conduct accurate self-criticism and join the democratic struggle, standing with the HDP."
Furthermore, PKK member Nurettin Demirtaş, HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş's brother, made a similar call to the CHP this month.
Indicating that this alliance must be forged by the experience gained from the Turkish War of Independence, he said: "For this reason, calls that have been made to the CHP are significant, but those who consider themselves real progressives and democrats must not waste a moment in a CHP that abstains from such [an alliance]."
Another senior PKK leader, Mustafa Karasu, also previously urged the CHP into the struggle against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
Using the pen name "Hüseyin Ali" in the pro-PKK Turkish daily Özgür Gündem, Karasu demanded support from the CHP, saying in his column that if they could count on "an important part of the CHP in this struggle, the AK Party government would be unable to even look for a place to hide."
CHP Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy for Istanbul, also raised eyebrows when he appeared on a program on the German PKK-affiliated MED Nuçe TV channel earlier the same day as the Ankara bombing, on Mar.13.
CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu came under fire after making a statement in December that called terrorists digging trenches in urban areas of the country's southeastern provinces "friends."
In a live debate on Habertürk in January, CHP Mersin Deputy Aytuğ Atıcı called PKK terrorists who had been killed "martyrs," and allegedly justified young children leaving for the mountains to fight alongside the PKK.
She made a similar call in March, saying: "It is very important for the CHP to conduct accurate self-criticism and join the democratic struggle, standing with the HDP."
Furthermore, PKK member Nurettin Demirtaş, HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş's brother, made a similar call to the CHP this month.
Indicating that this alliance must be forged by the experience gained from the Turkish War of Independence, he said: "For this reason, calls that have been made to the CHP are significant, but those who consider themselves real progressives and democrats must not waste a moment in a CHP that abstains from such [an alliance]."
Another senior PKK leader, Mustafa Karasu, also previously urged the CHP into the struggle against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party).
Using the pen name "Hüseyin Ali" in the pro-PKK Turkish daily Özgür Gündem, Karasu demanded support from the CHP, saying in his column that if they could count on "an important part of the CHP in this struggle, the AK Party government would be unable to even look for a place to hide."
CHP Deputy Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy for Istanbul, also raised eyebrows when he appeared on a program on the German PKK-affiliated MED Nuçe TV channel earlier the same day as the Ankara bombing, on Mar.13.
CHP Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu came under fire after making a statement in December that called terrorists digging trenches in urban areas of the country's southeastern provinces "friends."
In a live debate on Habertürk in January, CHP Mersin Deputy Aytuğ Atıcı called PKK terrorists who had been killed "martyrs," and allegedly justified young children leaving for the mountains to fight alongside the PKK.
Last Update: May 12, 2016 19:57