BDP: Let there be peace and freedom in the new year
BDP: Let there be peace and freedom in the new year
In a new year's message addressing to all peoples in Turkey, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaþ and Gültan Kýþanak conveyed wishes of peace and freedom for the new year.
BDP co-chairs pointed out that the year 2012 had witnessed negative developments in terms of peace and freedoms as wars continued to take the lives of people in Turkey, Syria and the Middle East, adding; “People greatly suffered from pain, devastation, poverty, misery, injustice, unhappiness and inequality in the year we left behind which also witnessed intense repression against democracy and freedoms. Social demands, opponent voices and justice-seeking acts of people were attacked with suppression and bans.”
BDP remarked that the deadlock in the Kurdish issue continued in 2012 as well because of the wrong policies adopted by the government, noting that; “However, our peoples' determined struggle for peace and democracy achieved to bring the problems to a historic point of solution. The new year should open a new page as it represents a new beginning and offers a significant opportunity.”
BDP ended its message underlining that the main goals in the new year should be to end the clashes and tragedies in Turkey and the Middle East, to pave the way for dialogue and negotiations for a democratic solution in the Kurdish question, to enhance democratic standards, to ensure a pluralist and equitable constitution for Turkey, to end jailing people because of their thoughts, to release thousands of jailed politicians and journalists and to ensure equality and justice in all areas.”
BDP co-chairs pointed out that the year 2012 had witnessed negative developments in terms of peace and freedoms as wars continued to take the lives of people in Turkey, Syria and the Middle East, adding; “People greatly suffered from pain, devastation, poverty, misery, injustice, unhappiness and inequality in the year we left behind which also witnessed intense repression against democracy and freedoms. Social demands, opponent voices and justice-seeking acts of people were attacked with suppression and bans.”
BDP remarked that the deadlock in the Kurdish issue continued in 2012 as well because of the wrong policies adopted by the government, noting that; “However, our peoples' determined struggle for peace and democracy achieved to bring the problems to a historic point of solution. The new year should open a new page as it represents a new beginning and offers a significant opportunity.”
BDP ended its message underlining that the main goals in the new year should be to end the clashes and tragedies in Turkey and the Middle East, to pave the way for dialogue and negotiations for a democratic solution in the Kurdish question, to enhance democratic standards, to ensure a pluralist and equitable constitution for Turkey, to end jailing people because of their thoughts, to release thousands of jailed politicians and journalists and to ensure equality and justice in all areas.”
