HDK states the attempted coup is “a result of the internal conflict created by the Palace’s coup. HDK warned the government that the reaction against the attempted coup should not be read as “aproval of the one-man regime”.
Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokespersons Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit and Ertuğrul Kürkçü held a press conference in HDK İstanbul Bureau on the attempted coup. HDK constituents and representatives from political parties and platforms attended the conference as well as Kürkçü and Koçyiğit.
HDK Co-spokesperson Ertuğrul Kürkçü made the first statement in the press conference and emphasized that they are a hundred per cent against the coup attempt on July 15, and said that first suppressing the situation first described as Prime Minister Yıldırım as “an uprising”, and then declaring it a coup aimed mostly to turn the AKP into a “saviour”, rather than actually explain the situation. Kürkçü said, “This July 15 was less like the May 27, September 12, February 28 coups, and more like the insurgency of May 21, 1963 by Colonel Talat Aydemir.”
“THE RESULTS OF THE PALACE COUP”
Kürkçü said the government and the Palace had intelligence that they were not sharing with the public and claimed President Erdoğan and government officials moving to secure locations to face the events is a proof of this. Kürkçü said, “It shows that they planned to use the suppressing of the uprising as a lever to eliminate competition and have Erdoğan’s ‘one leader’ maneuver come true”. Kürkçü stated that Turkey has been going through a coup process under Erdoğan’s lead since June 7, and said the first phase of the coup was completed when November 1 elections were held following the war declared on the Kurdish people by former PM Ahmet Davutoğlu, and now the second phase of the coup had been set in motion by the rise of Binali Yıldırım to PM status. Kürkçü stressed that the attempted “July 15 Military Coup” was the third phase, and continued: “The elimination of so many more judges and prosecutors than arrested soldiers the day after July 15 gives us an idea on how deep the internal conflict caused by the Palace coup in the state goes.”
Kürkçü said the Palace and the government were abusing the rightful and legitimate reaction of the political parties and the society against a military intervention, instead of using it for a democratic consensus, and they they have turned the defeat of July 15 into an opportunity to take revenge on their rivals and enemies.
