Tens of thousands march to protest Diyarbakir court
Tens of thousands march to protest Diyarbakir court
Tens of thousands gathered in Diyarbakir to protest Diyarbakir courts refusal for usage of mother language in so-called KCK trial.
BDP MP's Emine Ayna, Ozdal Ucer, Sabahat Tuncel and Nezir Karabas as well as Kurdish mayors were among the protestors who marched from Dagkapi to Kosuyolu Parc.
Speaking to the crowd BDP MP Ucer said "If they don't recognize Kurdish, we don't recognize their court, their prosecutor and their judge". He critisized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks about "one nation, one state and one language" saying "It would have been good if Erdogan had a piece of mind"
Ucer also said that the judges act with the orders from the government and added "Our identity, our culture and our democratic politics are being tried in the court".
BDP MP Emine Ayna also spoke at the meeting. She said that it's an insult to Kurdish people to identify Kurdish language as an "unknown language" and called all Kurds to protest the Turkish state.
The crowd carried posters of jailed leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan. A giant banner read "Our only demand is freedom".
Yesterday in KCK trial the defendants insisted on speaking Kurdish. Defendant Bayram Altun replied in Kurdish in the attendance check whereupon the microphone was switched off.
The judge said for the record that "Altun talked in an unknown language". Defendant Ramazan Morkoç criticized, "You cannot call Kurdish an unknown language. That is an insult of our language, our culture and our people". The judge reacted promptly and had Morkoç removed from the court room by army officers.
When the other defendants protested the situation as well, they were also expelled from the court room.
BDP MP's Emine Ayna, Ozdal Ucer, Sabahat Tuncel and Nezir Karabas as well as Kurdish mayors were among the protestors who marched from Dagkapi to Kosuyolu Parc.
Speaking to the crowd BDP MP Ucer said "If they don't recognize Kurdish, we don't recognize their court, their prosecutor and their judge". He critisized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks about "one nation, one state and one language" saying "It would have been good if Erdogan had a piece of mind"
Ucer also said that the judges act with the orders from the government and added "Our identity, our culture and our democratic politics are being tried in the court".
BDP MP Emine Ayna also spoke at the meeting. She said that it's an insult to Kurdish people to identify Kurdish language as an "unknown language" and called all Kurds to protest the Turkish state.
The crowd carried posters of jailed leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan. A giant banner read "Our only demand is freedom".
Yesterday in KCK trial the defendants insisted on speaking Kurdish. Defendant Bayram Altun replied in Kurdish in the attendance check whereupon the microphone was switched off.
The judge said for the record that "Altun talked in an unknown language". Defendant Ramazan Morkoç criticized, "You cannot call Kurdish an unknown language. That is an insult of our language, our culture and our people". The judge reacted promptly and had Morkoç removed from the court room by army officers.
When the other defendants protested the situation as well, they were also expelled from the court room.
