Basque Platform of solidarity with Kurdistan condemns attempt to ban the HDP

The Basque Platform Kurdistanekin Elkartasuna Ekimena has issued a statement condemning the request of the Public Prosecutor of Turkey to outlaw the HDP.

The Basque Platform Kurdistanekin Elkartasuna Ekimena has issued a statement condemning the request of the Public Prosecutor of Turkey to outlaw the HDP, that, as the Platform reminds “a part from its large Kurdish presence, also welcomes Armenian representatives, the LGTBI collective and of course and gives special presence and importance to the liberation of women.”

The statement said: “The initiative, although extremely serious, is the expression of what the AKP, the party of President Recep Tayip Erdogan, has been perpetrating since 2015, when the peace talks with the PKK ended. Since that moment, tens of thousands of HDP activists have been detained - including its most recognizable leaders as well as countless public positions in the coalition have also been revoked, replaced by close trustees. to the AKP.

These trustees of mayors and other positions have dedicated themselves to destroying all the advances made by the HDP and to squandering the public resources of the populations that they have legally taken by force.”

The statement continued: “The AKP's dependence on the Turkish extreme right, MHP, its partner in government, has led it to accept this new repressive twist that puts the retrograde, racist and authoritarian nature of the Turkish state on the table.

Unable to assume other national, political and feminist realities, the AKP has removed its mask from the West trying to sweep away its only real opposition in the country and, as has been the custom in recent years, expects Western laziness and silence be the necessary collaborators in this new crime against the Kurdish political movement, but also against all identities despised by Turkey.”