Its leader Turkish People’s Republican Party (CHP) and joint candidate of the opposition alliance in the presidential elections in Turkey, Kemal Kilicdarogluposted a video today, in which he accuses Recep Tayyip Erdogan of connecting the Kurds with the terrorism.
“Today, millions of Kurds are treated as terrorists“, he complains in today’s video, which was posted on social media. It is reminded that in less than a month, the presidential elections of Turkeyon May 14.
“Every time the Palace sees that it is going to lose the election, it starts collective stigmatization of the Kurds. It’s really unpleasant,” says Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who comes from the province of Dersim (Tunceli, eastern Turkey), with a population of Kurds and Alevis. “Dear friends, don’t fall for their propaganda“, urges the candidate of the National Alliance.
THE opposition alliance it is made up of six parties of various political orientations. So far, he has avoided references to Kurdish issue due to the presence in its ranks of the nationalist party Iyi.
THE Kurdish communitywhich numbers approx 15 million people in Turkeyare considered the regulators of the elections in which the fate of Turkey’s strongman for two decades, as prime minister or as president, is at stake, Tayyip Erdogan. The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party HDPTurkey’s third-largest political force, announced in late March that it would not field a candidate in the presidential election, thus giving tacit support for Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
The opposition presidential candidate said that if elected he would release the HDP leader, Selahattin Demirtaswho has been in prison since 2016 accused of “terrorist propaganda».
Erdogan has since repeated that Kilicdaroglu “takes orders” directly from the Qadil mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, his rearguard base PKK. Ankara accuses the HDP, credited with more than 10% of the vote, of “maintaining relations with the PKK”.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu has condemned discrimination against the Kurdish language in Turkey, as well as the replacement in recent years of dozens of HDP mayors in southeastern Turkey with a Kurdish population by Ankara-appointed governors.
Source: News Beast
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