After Turkey's fraudulent referendum on the presidency, pro-Kurdish HDP party sends messages to the ruling AKP party and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
"It will be more appropriate to carry on the path as a ‘Democratic Bloc’ rather than the ‘No’-bloc’’, Selahattin Demirtaş, Turkey’s detained co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) stated in his letter written from the prison.
Demirtaş called for bringing together under the umbrella of a "democratic bloc" rather than the "No-bloc" that has been discussed as a new oppositional union after the referendum.
"The first thing to be done is to gather around the negotiation table as representatives of social and political fractions in the 'No-bloc' to discuss the principles. A road map should be determined after reaching a mutual agreement in order to grow the 'No' stance through collaboration, alliance and partnership with the social fractions (not with political parties) voted 'Yes' in the April 16 referendum in Turkey", Demirtaş stated in his letter.
Demirtaş said "A program without a solution to the Kurdish question cannot be regarded a democracy program and nobody would take it seriously. First of all, a realistic negotiation platform and mechanism for the democratic peaceful solution for the Kurdish question should be formed. The roles and missions of the social and political actors which will take part in this process should be concretely specified. It is necessary to develop a reasonable, suitable to the current conditions and realistic solution mechanisms or methods based on our experience gained by all dialogues and negotiations in the past."
While the unprecedented oppressions of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Erdoğan’s dictatorship increasingly continue, such attempts to negotiate with the government on the Kurdish question are widely criticised. Some, including communists, insist that the AKP government cannot bring about a real and permanent peace. Besides, they point out the fact that the limited social reliance and support regarding the solution of the Kurdish question suffered a heavy damage due to fallacious and deceptive peace negotiations in the past.
Despite all the destructive and reactionary practices of Erdogan's dictatorship, the AKP has insistently called the AKP government for the reestablishment of peace negotiations on the Kurdish question. HDP officials had previously made statements that a minority government could form for the 'stability'. Demirtas had also accused the resistance of the Gezi Park in 2013 of being 'putschist' referring to some participant fractions of the protests.
