Army is now at the state' service, says BDP co-chair
Army is now at the state' service, says BDP co-chair
BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) co-chair, Filiz Koçali, has released a statement about the recent resignation by four top army commanders, included the Chief of General Staff. "Following the resignation of the generals, - Koçali said - the Supreme Military Council Meeting has been gathered under the authority of the government, which thus ended the "anti-democratic autonomy" of the army. The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) has now entered into the service and domination of the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the military tutelage has thus come to an end".
Koçali points out that now the question which need to be answered is what kind of a regime will follow?
"The answer - she said - to this question cannot be sought and found in abstract Constitutional promises, such as the Prime Minister's address to the nation. The concrete steps to be taken on the Kurdish question will be the most concrete sign of whether a real democratic regime or a "militarist-police state" regime will replace the military tutelage regime in Turkey".
According to Koçali "If the government doesn't end the dirty "Turkey-Iran, anti-Kurdish alliance", take the decision of mutual inertia and take concrete steps towards Mr.Ocalan's freedom to enable his re-inclusion in the "negotiation process, this attitude will be a sign of a tendency to a "militarist-police state" because a state with a democratic and civilian constitution and dominated by rights and freedoms will never folllow a deadlock policy in the Kurdish issue through a war".
Koçali underlines that "the dilemma that Turkey is facing nowadays when generals are under inspection, is; either a progression into a militarist-police state on the way of war and solutionlessness, or a going towards democracy on the way of peace and solution...The "democracy" and the "war and lack of a solution" cannot exist side by side".
According to the BDP co-chair "The AKP can no more hold up anyone with the demagogy that the army is an obstacle before the initiatives he will take for peace and solution. The army now means the AKP which dominates all the institutions of the state, the judiciary, police, intelligence and the army. The Prime Minister will either officially announce the policy of "war and deadlock" and thus declare the progress into a militarist-police state or lean to real democracy with an intention to peace and solution in a dialogue with all relevant subjects in the Kurdish issue".
Ending her statement the BDP co-chair remarked that "Turkey is facing greater dangers than thought. The attack of the Iranian state, backed by Turkey as well, aims to purge the Kurdish liberation movement in these two states and to establish a sovereignty over South Kurdistan.
Such a goal opens all the doors to a civil war in Turkey and a interstate war in the region. Real powers are face to face now; the ruling AKP government on one side, and everybody seeking for peace and solution on the other side".
Translation: Firat Deniz
Koçali points out that now the question which need to be answered is what kind of a regime will follow?
"The answer - she said - to this question cannot be sought and found in abstract Constitutional promises, such as the Prime Minister's address to the nation. The concrete steps to be taken on the Kurdish question will be the most concrete sign of whether a real democratic regime or a "militarist-police state" regime will replace the military tutelage regime in Turkey".
According to Koçali "If the government doesn't end the dirty "Turkey-Iran, anti-Kurdish alliance", take the decision of mutual inertia and take concrete steps towards Mr.Ocalan's freedom to enable his re-inclusion in the "negotiation process, this attitude will be a sign of a tendency to a "militarist-police state" because a state with a democratic and civilian constitution and dominated by rights and freedoms will never folllow a deadlock policy in the Kurdish issue through a war".
Koçali underlines that "the dilemma that Turkey is facing nowadays when generals are under inspection, is; either a progression into a militarist-police state on the way of war and solutionlessness, or a going towards democracy on the way of peace and solution...The "democracy" and the "war and lack of a solution" cannot exist side by side".
According to the BDP co-chair "The AKP can no more hold up anyone with the demagogy that the army is an obstacle before the initiatives he will take for peace and solution. The army now means the AKP which dominates all the institutions of the state, the judiciary, police, intelligence and the army. The Prime Minister will either officially announce the policy of "war and deadlock" and thus declare the progress into a militarist-police state or lean to real democracy with an intention to peace and solution in a dialogue with all relevant subjects in the Kurdish issue".
Ending her statement the BDP co-chair remarked that "Turkey is facing greater dangers than thought. The attack of the Iranian state, backed by Turkey as well, aims to purge the Kurdish liberation movement in these two states and to establish a sovereignty over South Kurdistan.
Such a goal opens all the doors to a civil war in Turkey and a interstate war in the region. Real powers are face to face now; the ruling AKP government on one side, and everybody seeking for peace and solution on the other side".
Translation: Firat Deniz
