HDP calls for Kurdish coalition
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – HDP is calling for a Kurdish coalition to defeat the ruling party of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s June 24 elections.
“In response to coalitions formed by AKP and MHP, we as all the Kurdish elements should all together form a coalition,” said HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan in campaign speech in Diyarbakir on Wednesday.
“This is the most important factor in achieving freedom. All the responsible people and institutions should join the coalition,” she continued.
Parties are forming coalitions as campaigning heats up in a major election in Turkey that will bring in the strengthened presidency adopted by constitutional amendment last year.
The ruling AKP is running alongside the nationalist MHP.
Four opposition parties – CHP, Saadet Party, IYI Party, and the Democratic Party – have formed a coalition. They did not invite HDP to join them, a move that angered the pro-Kurdish party.
At least five Kurdish parties have formed the Kurdistan Coalition, but none of them currently have seats in Turkey's Grand Assembly. The five are: the Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Freedom Movement), Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), Kurdistan Democratic Party – North (PDK-Bakur), Kurdistan Democratic Platform (PDK), and Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK).
They have also been in touch with other Kurdish parties to broaden the coalition.
Buldan said hinted that Kurdish disunity across borders is weakening the national cause.
“We as the Kurds haven’t achieved freedom not because we are weak, but because are divided. The Kurdish nation has realized that the fates of Kirkuk, Afrin, Sirnak and Mahabad are the same,” she said, referring to Kurdish losses in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.
“In response to coalitions formed by AKP and MHP, we as all the Kurdish elements should all together form a coalition,” said HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan in campaign speech in Diyarbakir on Wednesday.
“This is the most important factor in achieving freedom. All the responsible people and institutions should join the coalition,” she continued.
Parties are forming coalitions as campaigning heats up in a major election in Turkey that will bring in the strengthened presidency adopted by constitutional amendment last year.
The ruling AKP is running alongside the nationalist MHP.
Four opposition parties – CHP, Saadet Party, IYI Party, and the Democratic Party – have formed a coalition. They did not invite HDP to join them, a move that angered the pro-Kurdish party.
At least five Kurdish parties have formed the Kurdistan Coalition, but none of them currently have seats in Turkey's Grand Assembly. The five are: the Kurdistan Islamic Movement (Freedom Movement), Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), Kurdistan Democratic Party – North (PDK-Bakur), Kurdistan Democratic Platform (PDK), and Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK).
They have also been in touch with other Kurdish parties to broaden the coalition.
Buldan said hinted that Kurdish disunity across borders is weakening the national cause.
“We as the Kurds haven’t achieved freedom not because we are weak, but because are divided. The Kurdish nation has realized that the fates of Kirkuk, Afrin, Sirnak and Mahabad are the same,” she said, referring to Kurdish losses in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran.