DTK calls on peoples to step up the resistance

DTK said the war policies of the AKP threatened the HDP, the Kurdish people and the future of the peoples of Turkey, and called on peoples to step up the resistance against these policies.

Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has released a statement strongly condemning the attacks on Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). DTK said the war policies of the AKP threatened the HDP, the Kurdish people and the future of the peoples of Turkey, and called on peoples to step up the resistance against these policies.

DTK pointed out that the current process was evolving into a critical stage for the peoples of the country while the peace was said to be near by all the segments of the society just 4 months ago, and the country is now being dragged into a war that seems will deepen in the near future.

'KURDS UNDER THREAT'

DTK said the June 7 election results created a political atmosphere eligible for the realization of the people's hope for peace which was however leveled down by those who wanted to resume their reign and create new opportunities only for themselves around their ruling.

“Today the country has turned into a pool of blood. Deaths, the number of which we cannot count anymore, and racist attacks carried out against our people and their institutions reached the stage of threatening the people's hope for together living”, said the DTK.

The statement stressed that racist attacks against Kurdish people and institutions have been turned into a total massacre and lynch campaign by polarizing statements of the politicians that triggered conflict and enmity, and pointed to the fact that all the Kurdish people living in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Central Anatolia, Black Sea and Marmara regions of the country remained under a great danger.

'PEOPLE WERE CONDEMNED TO DEATH'

DTK drew attention to the ongoing police-soldier siege in Cizre, Silopi and Yüksekova and many other places in Northern Kurdistan, and recalled that dozens of children and civilians were deliberately targeted and killed by snipers. “Besides the electricity and water cut, security forces also denied access of food and supplies into the civilian settlements, depriving the people of basic needs, and condemning those in need of urgent treatment and the ill to death.”

DTK remarked that an extraordinary situation and a fascist rule is being imposed on the country, and strongly condemned the fascist-exploitative impositions, attacks ans racist lynching attempts against the people.

'RESISTANCE SHOULD BE STEPPED UP'

DTK continued by calling on the peoples to step up their democratic unity, organisation and resistance in order to fight against these repressions and the policies aiming an annihilation. DTK underlined that struggle against these policies was vital for the democratic future of Turkey and the together-living of all the peoples in the country.

“We call on all democratic forces and the international community to be sensitive and resist in solidarity with the Kurdish people against the racist inhuman attacks waged in Kurdistan and the lynching campaign against the Kurds across Turkey”, stressed the DTK at the end of its statement.