The Kurdish nationalist party leader BDP, Demirtas Selahatin announced publicly to the press yesterday that his training will encourage the Kurdish population to carry out acts of civil disobedience to solve the Kurdish problem in Turkey.
Demirtas made the announcement during a joint press appearance of his party and the so-called "Democratic Society Congress (DTK), an organization that brings together many groups and Kurdish political figures. Among those attending the ceremony in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, were Ahmet Türk and Aysel Tuğluk, currently members of the board of DTK and former members of the DTP Kurdish party, the predecessor in the BOP Turkish parliament before it was banned in 2009 for alleged links with the terrorist group PKK. Also attended by other prominent figures of Kurdish politics in Turkey as the mayor of Diyarbakır, Osman Baydemir.
Demirtas said, the AKP government has squandered numerous opportunities to resolve the Kurdish conflict in Turkey during his eight years in power. "The government will not solve this problem," Demirtas said, adding that neither his party nor other Kurdish groups continue to accept the measures proposed by the executive of Prime Minister Erdoğan.
As part of this opposition, the BDP has proposed a series of acts of civil disobedience that began on Wednesday with a public sitting in the southeastern city of Batman starring some 20,000 people. Demirtas said that it would conduct similar events from now, the next of them there precisely in Diyarbakır.
Demirtas demanding that they be sent to the security forces to disperse the demonstrators, but representatives and policy makers. "This is not a challenge. This is a demonstration of people's determination not to live with this problem in 2012, and to obtain their freedom."
Meanwhile Ahmet Türk stressed that these actions will be fully "democratic and peaceful "and said he did not respond" even if we're crushed, "while showing his confidence that Democrats and other Turkish intellectuals support these acts of disobedience." This is also a problem in Turkey, "Türk said.
"We want the process to be addressed through civilian politics, people's democratic power and civil disobedience actions," Demirtas said, "until firm steps carried out" for its four main demands.
"These demands are education in our mother tongue, release of political prisoners (referring to BDP members jailed for links to the PKK), to military and political operations (against the PKK and the BDP) and the elimination of 10% electoral barrier, "said the leader of the BDP, in reference to electoral barrier which requires that a party wins at least 10% of the national vote in elections to be present in parliament, however, although Kurdish nationalist parties like the DTP or BDP round only 4-5% of the votes throughout Turkey in the 2007 general managed to get 20 deputies presenting independent candidates that are not subject to this limit.
Tensions in southeastern Turkey
The mood among many Turkish Kurds are heated from the start of the celebrations of Nevruz (Newroz, Kurdish), which was held on Monday and has been exploited by nationalist groups to star in clashes with Kurds the police. Precisely the Diyarbakir Public Prosecutor has launched an investigation after that during the celebrations organized by BDP in the city hundreds of thousands of participants chanted slogans in favor of the PKK and its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, which is quite common in events organized by this party, which has often described as "heroes" or "fighters for freedom "to the members of this terrorist group.
has also opened an investigation by the Turkish justice against a Member of the BDP Sebahat Tuncel, who herded a blow to the head of local police Silopi after a Kurdish demonstration was put down with tear gas by police. The National Assembly (parliament) of Turkey is discussing lifting the immunity of both Tuncel as another member of BDP, which was photographed throwing stones at police during celebrations on Monday.
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