How can you say Nov 1 was a coup?
It is as if the Kandil Mountains, the logistical and administrative base of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was not deadly afraid of unarmed politics gaining power…
As if the PKK did not regard the results of the June 7 election as a threat to its existence…
As if those in the mountains were not the most annoyed ones that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) gained 13 percent of the votes in June, proving the armed struggle method meaningless…
As if it was not the Kurdistan Communities’ Union (KCK) staff who scolded HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş for campaigning by promising to bring peace, saying Demirtaş did not have the authority to call for a truce to the PKK …
As if the PKK did not take credit for the June 7 results… As if it did not reach out and grab the 13 percent victory, claiming there were no “borrowed” votes.
As if the PKK did not seize the HDP’s Nov. 1 election campaign, panicked by the prospect of Demirtaş becoming too popular.
As if the acts of the PKK did not prompt the loss of at least 1 million votes that came to the HDP on June 7.
As if it was not the PKK that struck a blow to the outcome of June 7 with arms, terror and bullying…
As if it did not cast a shadow over the democratic race…
As if it did not knock down the ballot box …
As if it was not the one that hit out at the HDP and grasped its votes…
As if the poor performance of the HDP on Nov. 1 was not the result of the KCK’s strategy of torching cities in the name of the “democratic autonomy” fantasy…
Now, it is seriously choosing to issue a statement signed by co-chair of KCK, including terms such as “coup d’état,” hiding its responsibility for contributing to the drop in the HDP’s votes.
It has come out and said that “Nov. 1 is a political coup, it is the confiscation of the ballot box, it is the seizure of power.”
It also attempts to put the blame on Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the summer’s events.
It fails to give an honest account to the grassroots that it deceived, misled, gambled with, without a hint of self-criticism…
So the nightmarish last five months will not be billed to the correct address? Is that so?
So not even one word will be uttered to the warlords of Kandil, who sanctified armed politics and was not able to stomach the victory of the unarmed struggle, ruining all democratic gains? There will be no strong voice from the HDP calling them to account? Nobody will tell them to get their hands off the HDP?
The destruction that they caused pursuing impossible dreams will be disregarded? Is that so?
They think they can get by through debating the quality and legality of the election, by spreading rumors that it was not honest and free.
The “Vote and Beyond” voluntary platform observed polling stations with more than 60,000 observers. It issued its final report the other day. It compared a total of 195,606 polling station protocols with the official registry. In only 766 of them did it detect discrepancies. Out of the more than 47 million votes cast, only 10,000 had discrepancies. This rate is even lower than Vote and Beyond’s detection of discrepancies in the June 7 election.
So is it not true that whoever attacks the honesty and freedom of the election would be lying?
Regardless of this, the KCK has announced the Nov. 1 vote invalid.
Never mind. The one who shuts his eyes creates a night for himself. Have a nice sleep.
