HDP's Ertuğrul Kürkçü stated that the election results cannot be explained as a 'fraud' alone as he admitted the loss of votes by their party and attributed it to AKP's pro-war politics and their failure to respond to it.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) İzmir deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü evaluated the results of November 1 elections for ANF.

'RESULTS CANNOT BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE FRAUD ALONE'

Kürkçü said there was definitely a fraud in question, for which AKP had worked and got organized very well, but pointed out that the loss of one million votes by HDP cannot be attributed to this fraud alone.

"We were aware of the fact that our votes had been decreasing as the election day approached, because of which it wouldn't be moral for us to explain the cause of this setback on the basis of this fraud. Still, there exists an unjustness and injustice and it is important to expose it. Yet, it wouldn't suit the reality to attribute the current scene of ours to the fraud committed by AKP."

Kürkçü said the point in question was not one million stolen votes but rather one million people they have not been able to gather alongside them once again. "The major reason of this reality is our failure to heal the trauma caused by the state violence, and our moral and material difficulty to respond to it. In consideration of the unease caused by arrests, murders, mass killings, martial laws, acts of lynching and plundering, it could be explained what we have faced in fact."

'AKP WON THROUGH A CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE'

Calling attention to AKP's endless efforts to influence the results of November 1 elections unlawfully during the period since after the general election of June 7, Kürkçü said AKP has mobilized all its possibilities for the realization of this goal, including the state power, public authority, arms, money, media, religion, local administration and capital power. According to Kürkçü, AKP worked very hard to maximize its votes, overwhelm and discredit the HDP, make it a crime to stand by HDP and turn the assembly of people into a basis for a massacre. "Fraud could be put into practice only at a point where all these wouldn't be sufficient", he added.

HDP deputy emphasized that AKP on the other hand caused MHP's collapse by resorting to racist and religious policies and thus receiving the support of many circles such as BBP, Saadet Party and Hüda-Par, which therefore left no place for the MHP.

"We now face a bloc formed by the Turkish right and nationalist circles that unite around the AKP and make it the front party of this bloc."

Drawing attention to the influence of AKP's campaign of violence on the results, Kürkçü said; "It would move us away from the reality and the actual point if we attributed the results only to a fraud and act as if nothing had happened during the last four months. AKP has won this election by force of arms, and this is the point that must concern us the most. As the law is the only way to expose the frauds, I believe the claims and objections raised by polling observers will work. It is possible to get back the stolen votes."

'11 PERCENT IS A SIGNIFICANT RATE UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES'

Regarding the votes received by HDP, deputy Ertuğrul Kürkçü said; "Despite everything, HDP has managed to remain standing with its honour, dignity, courage and openness. This is a success of great importance. As a matter of fact, we would see 11 percent as a very significant result in the previous election. It goes without doubt that we wanted to maintain the 13 percent we achieved then, but AKP confronted it physically with bloodshed and deaths. From a realistic point of view, 11 percent is a very significant mass and potential under these circumstances, and it is capable of protecting the party from any kind of threshold."

Kürkçü emphasised that there is no need for sorrow and sadness as they will not ever pay attention to AKP's remarks 'I got the 50 percent and half of the country, which makes my legitimacy unquestionable'.

He added that; "The government might have attained a legitimate basis for itself but this wouldn't change the fact that Davutoğu and Erdoğan have held the ruling by means of a coup for months. We will keep standing against this pro-coup regime."