AKP Kurds are not real deal, DTP says
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Aralık 04, 2008 00:00
ANKARA - Democratic Society Party deputy Emine Ayna says it is only her party that does not wage ethnicity based politics. ’If you vote for any other party but the DTP, you will be voting for war. A vote for the DTP is a vote for peace,’ she tells party supporters in the eastern province of Bitlis
Political candidates from the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, cannot claim to be Kurds after what the government did to the Kurdish people, said a deputy of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP.
The DTP deputy leader and Mardin deputy, Emine Ayna, was in the Güroymak region of the eastern province of Bitlis on Tuesday.
According to the Doğan news agency, she told her supporters at a rally that the local elections Ğ scheduled to take place next March Ğ were very important.
"The AKP has shown its true face with its policies in the last year and a half. It wants war and ignores Kurds. Don’t vote for those people who claim to be Kurds and are running from parties other than the DTP, because no candidates from parties other than the DTP are Kurds," Ayna said. She said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had tried to visit the region and added: "He ran away, going overseas, after what the people of Van, Hakkari and Diyarbakır told him. On his return, he didn’t utter a single word about what happened."
During last month’s visit to the southeast, Erdoğan faced violent demonstrations, which he blamed the DTP for organizing.
’Everyone vote for us’
She invited all Kurd, Turk, Azeri and Arab citizens of the country to vote for the DTP, arguing that it was only her party that did not wage ethnicity based politics. "If you vote for any other party but the DTP, you will be voting for war. A vote for the DTP is a vote for peace," she told the party supporters.
Her speech was constantly cut with shouts of praise for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan.Ayna is on a tour of the east and the southeast.
During her speech, a local man who waved a Turkish flag and shouted, "Damn the PKK," was about to be set on by the crowd before he was carried to safety by local law enforcement officers.
In response to the man’s actions, Ayna said: "We have no problem with the Turkish flag. What that man did was an insult," trying to calm her supporters.
The DTP deputy leader and Mardin deputy, Emine Ayna, was in the Güroymak region of the eastern province of Bitlis on Tuesday.
According to the Doğan news agency, she told her supporters at a rally that the local elections Ğ scheduled to take place next March Ğ were very important.
"The AKP has shown its true face with its policies in the last year and a half. It wants war and ignores Kurds. Don’t vote for those people who claim to be Kurds and are running from parties other than the DTP, because no candidates from parties other than the DTP are Kurds," Ayna said. She said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had tried to visit the region and added: "He ran away, going overseas, after what the people of Van, Hakkari and Diyarbakır told him. On his return, he didn’t utter a single word about what happened."
During last month’s visit to the southeast, Erdoğan faced violent demonstrations, which he blamed the DTP for organizing.
’Everyone vote for us’
She invited all Kurd, Turk, Azeri and Arab citizens of the country to vote for the DTP, arguing that it was only her party that did not wage ethnicity based politics. "If you vote for any other party but the DTP, you will be voting for war. A vote for the DTP is a vote for peace," she told the party supporters.
Her speech was constantly cut with shouts of praise for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and its jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan.Ayna is on a tour of the east and the southeast.
During her speech, a local man who waved a Turkish flag and shouted, "Damn the PKK," was about to be set on by the crowd before he was carried to safety by local law enforcement officers.
In response to the man’s actions, Ayna said: "We have no problem with the Turkish flag. What that man did was an insult," trying to calm her supporters.