Turkish President Erdoğan has recently been repeating the claim that they carried out an airstrike against the administrative cadres of the PKK during a meeting, that “35 administrators lost their lives”, and the AKP media has been serving up these statements for days.

The KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency issued a written response and refuted Erdoğan’s claims in no uncertain means, stressing that the claims are propaganda for the elections.

The written statement issued by the KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency today is as follows:

“For the last few days, Tayyip Erdoğan has been circulating a great lie to win the elections. He has made his supporters in the media complicit in this lie as well. According to this, they supposedly hit the area where our administration was holding a meeting with fighter jets and 35 of our friends lost their lives. This is one final move by Erdoğan, who has come to understand that he is going to lose this election for sure. With such a lie, he aims to garner votes from certain chauvinist and anti-Kurdish circles in society. We assume they thought if they put this lie forward just a few days before the election, it wouldn’t be exposed and they would benefit from it. This made up story was prepared in the Palace. They assumed that the opposition wouldn’t object to such a lie and at least would be silenced by the questioning of their allegiance against terrorism. As such, the opposition hasn’t responded to this lie Erdoğan concocted for the elections. We had previously stated that they would resort to various tricks, conspiracies and provocations to win the elections, and the lie that they hit the meeting and killed 35 administrators is the expression of such a reality.

All the peoples of Turkey, forces of democracy, political circles and the opposition should know that this is a lie told before the elections to trick the people. A man who wants to win elections through such lies to the public should be punished at the ballots. Because with this lie, he aims to further disrupt the equality of an already unequal campaign process and to garner votes from nationalist and chauvinist circles riddled with anti-Kurdish sentiment. He resorts to this knowing that just a few percentage points can change the fate of the elections. Even if the lie told just before the election is exposed after, they will say it might have been a lie, but it wasn’t a bad lie. He will dismiss this lie, saying the horse belongs to he who rides it, the sword to he who dons it, like he has been saying in recent days.

We are warning all the peoples of Turkey and all political circles. They must urgently expose that what Erdoğan speaks of is a lie. If such a thing had happened, all the media would be running over each other to report on it, not just their supporters. Such a story would be the highlight of global news, because such an incident as the one Erdoğan claims couldn’t have been hidden. In this sense, nobody should have doubts in exposing this as a trick of Erdoğan’s to win the elections and reversing the game.”