Van Governor Murat Zorluoğlu’s name was written on the rockets fired during the Afrin invasion by soldiers, and he had shared the images from his social media accounts. Now he works like the AKP Van province chairperson before the elections.

Zorluoğlu met with several people who claim to represent the oldest clans in Van, the Gevdan and Alanlar clans within the span of 10 days. Then he attended the opening ceremony of the Bruki Clan Association and asked for support for the AKP. Governor Zorluoğlu also visited Ulupamir, known as the village guards’ village in Erciş, and continues to visit villages on horseback to gather votes for the AKP.

LIKE AN AKP CHAIR

HDP Van MP Lezgin Botan spoke to the ANF on the matter and said: “Trustees are a policy of usurpation. The governors appointed as trustees have already stepped outside the law and lost their neutrality. They are engaged in politics like they were AKP province chairpersons.”

NOT CLAN LEADERS

Botan said the trustees appointed to the usurped municipalities of the people continue to commit crimes against the people and stressed that they don’t have grounds to present themselves as if they met with the leaders or elders of the clans. Botan said: “The people they met with are mostly groups who have been acting in line with state forces since the ‘90s. They have been exposed in the eyes of the people, lost their credibility and have no reflection among the people.”

Botan pointed to the Van Governor’s manipulation attempts towards Clans over these people and said: “There has been a serious political, cultural and sociological transformation happening in Kurdistan since 1990s, Kurds are rapidly developing a national conscience. The state resorting to such methods shows how desperate they are.”