MEDİNE MAMEDOĞLU

Amed - Turkish Constitutional Court did the first examination on the second indictment seeking the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and accepted the indictment. After the acceptance of the indictment, the court set a date for the HDP for its preliminary defense. HDP MPs Dersim Dağ and Feleknaz Uca criticized the decision and said the decision was political, not legal. The HDP MPs spoke to our news agency about the HDP closure case.

“The attacks are planned”

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır MP Dersim Dağ told us that the political blackmail and intimidation have been systematically carried out against their party for years, “Tens of thousands of our members have been detained, kidnapped, arrested and murdered. Undoubtedly, all attacks against our party are planned attacks by the government. The illegalization of all the activities of our party in the last 3-4 years are policies aimed at closing our party and intimidating the struggle of the peoples,” she said.

“We never take a step back”

Dersim Dağ said they would stand stronger to continue their works. “We have resisted all the pressure politics carried out by the government until today, and we will keep resisting. HDP never bows down to fascism, it is the successor of a deep-rooted tradition that has waged glorious struggles and always focused on absolute victory. Our party is not a party that will be intimidated by a closure case, our parties have been closed down, and we have been attacked, killed, arrested, and exiled many times until now but we never take a step back. Despite all the attacks, we become stronger and grow our struggle. The parties and mindsets that tried to intimidate us have always lost but we have become stronger and never collapse.”

Feleknas Uca: They want to exclude us from the parliament

HDP Batman MP Feleknas Uca emphasized that the acceptance of the indictment seeking the closure of the HDP is political, not legal. Stating that the AKP government has held a grudge against the HDP since the elections held in Turkey on June 7, Feleknas Uca said that the acceptance of the indictment three days after the murder of Deniz Poyraz is not a coincidence. “Many parties of Kurdistan were shut down in history. Despite everything, the works and struggle of the Kurdish party continue. They (AKP-MHP coalition) want to silence the voices of Kurds, women, and democratic groups in the parliament. That's why they continue to attack. They want to exclude us from the parliament. Since the day the immunity of our members of the parliament was lifted, serious pressure politics has been carried out against our MPs. These politics shows very well that they don’t want a voice of freedom in the parliament,” Feleknas Uca said.

“They want to close down a party using the testimonies of anonymous witnesses”

Feleknas Uca said they would criticize the decision everywhere. Pointing out the attacks against the Kurds, Feleknas Uca said, “They want to remove us from the political area by attacking the Kurds in four parts. We will not remain silent against this. We will continue to work against these attacks. It is obvious what we have been doing as representatives of these people. We have worked for our people, our voters. They want to close down a political party using the testimonies of anonymous witnesses. This decision is political, not legal. We will not bow down to this. Our political works and struggle will always continue.”