Parliamentary candidates of 'This Social Order Must Change Platform' held meetings on May 20 with citizens in Turkish cities of Eskişehir, Konya, Diyarbakır and Gebze around the country.
The platform was established following the call of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) after Turkey’s electoral council (YSK) unlawfully prevented the party from participating the elections on June 24.
‘SOCIALISM FOR KURDISH WORKERS’
Platform’s candidate Selahattin Turğa and members of the TKP addressed the citizens in Diyarbakır, the predominantly Kurdish southeastern province.
Following the announcement of the platform’s electoral manifesto and the party members’ speeches, parliamentary candidate Turğa said, “Only under socialism, can the Kurdish people enjoy an egalitarian and free life,” adding calling on the workers to reject false alternatives and to get organized for the struggle for socialism.
COMMUNIST METAL WORKER CALLS FOR SOCIALISM
The platform also held a meeting in the industrial city of Gebze, Kocaeli near İstanbul. Metal worker Mustafa Tozkoparan, the communist parliamentary candidate, and Alpaslan Savaş, the TKP CC member, attended the meeting.
Reminding that the TKP was unlawfully prevented from participating the polls, Savaş said that what Turkey essentially needs is not to elect a president who holds all the power but an organized working people around the country. He underlined that Recep Tayyip Erdoğan must go, but this departure should accompany with a popular energy to change the order against false solutions.
“Moreover, Erdoğan has weakened. Erdoğan’s weakening is also the crisis of the order. In other words, the order has become weak in administration. Is not it high time to turn this situation into an opportunity for the workers?” Savaş said.
Tozkoparan said, “Since the working class retreated from the struggle for an order change, it has lost its rights day by day,” adding that they could protect and gain their rights whenever they got organized and resisted the capitalists.
Having had represented metal workers as a trade union representative for years, communist candidate Tozkoparan said that the will of changing the social order is a just and legitimate right, calling on his worker fellows to struggle for the fight against the bourgeoisie.
FIGHT AGAINST REACTIONARY FORCES
The platform held an event in the city of Konya on May 20 with the attendance of parliamentary candidate Lütfi Dİlek and TKP CC member Devrim Koçak. “We have participated the elections in order not to leave the working class without alternative,” said communist candidate Dilek.
As the city of Konya is known with Islamist tendencies, Dilek underlined that they will fight reactionary forces in the city, calling for the working people to get organized for raising the voice of socialism everywhere.
‘THIS SOCIAL ORDER MUST CHANGE’
One of the meetings of ‘This Social Order Must Change Platform' was held in the city of Eskişehir where independent communist candidate Oktay Yolsever addressed the citizens.
“I met feudalism when I was a teacher in Bingöl in 1967. I said even those times that ‘This order must change’. I was aware of the fact that one could not achieve this alone, thus I got organized,” Yolsever said while sharing his memories with citizens about how he had participated in the struggle for socialism.
Yolsever concluded that their goal is not to gain high lawmaker incomes as other pro-establishment figures do, adding that they are trying to organize the people for socialism at this electoral campaign.
The platform’s independent candidates will participate in the parliamentary voting in 17 electoral districts, the country’s most populated and industrial provinces such as İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Bursa, Adana, Antalya, Konya, Kocaeli and Diyarbakır.
