Kurdish Question

In recent weeks, controversies over a new “solution process” have dominated the agenda. Although it is said that the process has been prepared for a long time at the state level, the fuse of the debate was lit by Bahçeli’s gestures of sympathy and his outstretched hand to the members of the DEM party at the opening of the new parliamentary term. What really fuelled the debate was Bahçeli’s invitation to Öcalan to come to parliament and make a speech in his parliamentary caucus speech. However, the fact that these “agenda-breaking” statements and gestures were followed by armed actions, bombings, new arrests of politicians and the illegal dismissal of elected mayors and the appointment of so-called trustees in their place shows from the beginning that the heated political process will not follow a straight course.

HDP passed the barrier with a very clear margin as if a strong pole vaulter passes the bar with ease. A 13% rate and 6 million votes is at the same time a severe blow inflicted upon the “terror” demagogy. This is an important victory and it is contributed by socialists, progressives, democrats, freedom lovers as well. On this occasion we, as working-class revolutionaries, share the happiness of the HDP to which we provided our support and the success of which we have worked for.

It is very important for the working class to support the oppressed Kurdish people to get the rightful demands of the strikers met, thus preventing any deaths as well, and help open a new page for a democratic-peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. The internationalist hand of the working class extended towards the Kurdish people will not only be an answer to the poisonous language of the rulers but also a great step for a genuine solution of this burning question that has claimed tens of thousands so far.