Candidate Kürkçü leaves Bianet
Candidate Kürkçü leaves Bianet
Now that the High Elections Board reversed its decision to bar some BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) candidates from the general elections of 12 June, Ertugrul Kürkçü (who is one of the reinstated candidates) has publicly announced that he is to leave Bianet.
Bianet is the independent media project Ertugrul Kürkçü himself (together with journalist and writer Nadire Mater) has founded ten years ago. In an open letter to his former colleagues Kürkçü wrote that "working for Bianet and working outside for socialist publications and to comply with the duties to reestablish the socialist movement, are not in conflict at all. In order to put all these work in relation, it's important to build a new communication order. This is - Kürkçü said - as important as going to strike, founding a political party or a community organisation."
Kürkçü also underlined that form him "all acts of objection to the capitalist hegemony, in all levels of life, are revolutionary and we can succeed only if we can connect these efforts through a communication order that is beyond the realm of the market." If this is true in principle and it has been true for Kürkçü as well all these years now a new task lies ahead.
"As I stand as candidate in the coming parliamentary elections, - he said - as a part of the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc, formed by the Kurdish dissidents and socialists, it's time to free Bianet from me."
Recognising that this is not "a political necessity, it is an ethical one. Bianet must stand in equal distance to all candidates."
From its initiation, Bianet objected to defining itself with the absurd idea of "impartiality". It has sided with labor, freedoms, democracy, peace and rights. "But this is different. - said now Kürkçü - Bianet cannot side with me. If it does, it can no longer stay as Bianet. Furthermore, the right to stand candidate in coming elections, that I was able to attend as the longest week in Turkey's history is drawing to an end, is a far more personal position than even that of a political party leader. We have to stop here."
Bianet is the independent media project Ertugrul Kürkçü himself (together with journalist and writer Nadire Mater) has founded ten years ago. In an open letter to his former colleagues Kürkçü wrote that "working for Bianet and working outside for socialist publications and to comply with the duties to reestablish the socialist movement, are not in conflict at all. In order to put all these work in relation, it's important to build a new communication order. This is - Kürkçü said - as important as going to strike, founding a political party or a community organisation."
Kürkçü also underlined that form him "all acts of objection to the capitalist hegemony, in all levels of life, are revolutionary and we can succeed only if we can connect these efforts through a communication order that is beyond the realm of the market." If this is true in principle and it has been true for Kürkçü as well all these years now a new task lies ahead.
"As I stand as candidate in the coming parliamentary elections, - he said - as a part of the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc, formed by the Kurdish dissidents and socialists, it's time to free Bianet from me."
Recognising that this is not "a political necessity, it is an ethical one. Bianet must stand in equal distance to all candidates."
From its initiation, Bianet objected to defining itself with the absurd idea of "impartiality". It has sided with labor, freedoms, democracy, peace and rights. "But this is different. - said now Kürkçü - Bianet cannot side with me. If it does, it can no longer stay as Bianet. Furthermore, the right to stand candidate in coming elections, that I was able to attend as the longest week in Turkey's history is drawing to an end, is a far more personal position than even that of a political party leader. We have to stop here."
