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DTP Leader: There Are Three States In
Turkey
3.4.2008
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April
3, 2008
Ankara, Turkey, -- Pro Kurdish Democratic
Society Party (DTP) parliamentary group leader Ahmet
Türk has said the appeal to disband the ruling
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is a
product of a clash among forces within the state.
Türk, speaking at his party’s parliamentary group
meeting yesterday, said the AK Party closure case is
a consequence of a power war within the state.
“There are three states in Turkey. The first one
wants Turkey to change and move ahead on its road to
full membership in the European Union; the second
one aims to protect the status-quo in the country
and the last one wants to make the state a gang-like
deep state,” he said.
A prosecutor on March 14 requested the closure of
the ruling AK Party and a ban on 71 of its
high-level officials from engaging in politics for
five years,www.ekurd.net
including President Gül
(a former AK Party member) and Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan. |
The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP)
deputy Ahmet Turk |
Emphasizing that the 85-year-old republican system
in Turkey has finally reached an impasse, he noted
that there are circles which wish to deprive the
public of democracy. “They are afraid to see that
the public wants more freedom and democracy. That’s
why they attack politics and political parties. They
do so to secure the status quo and dominance over
society. They despise society,” he said.
Türk stressed that Turkey’s problems should be
solved in Parliament, adding that military solutions
cannot be a remedy to the country’s problems.
“The AK Party should certainly not show itself as
the victim of clashes among intra-state forces. The
AK Party has contributed to the eruption of these
clashes. They couldn’t use the power vested in them
by the nation in an effective manner. Unfortunately,
the ruling party is responsible for the current
situation in our country,” he said.
Türk also accused the AK Party of not defending
democracy from forces that support the status quo.
“If you had fought against these forces for
democracy, the Turkish democracy would not be in
such peril now. It is never too late for democratic
reform. Let’s start a war of independence for
democracy. Let’s fight all together against those
who resist change. The solution of the Kurdish
problem would be the biggest step to democratize all
of Turkey. One will either surrender to the status
quo or be its victim if he turns a blind eye to the
Kurdish problem. Let’s make Turkey the graveyard of
the status quo, not a graveyard of political
parties,” stated Türk.
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todayszaman com
** Kurds are not recognized as an official minority
in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 40 million Kurds live in Big
Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
Turkey is home to 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise
with the Kurdish PKK for a Kurdish homeland in the
country's mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media. The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish alphabet has led
to judicial persecution in 2000 and 2003
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan
but unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag
is banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it
is a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey)
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