HDP deputy Maçin: Trustees are the AKP's last move

HDP Urfa MP Nusrettin Maçin said: "Having lost Turkey's most important metropolitan cities, the AKP took it once again on Kurdistan where he appointed trustees."

Since 19 August, when the Ministry of Interior announced the appointment of trustees to the cities of Amed, Van and Mardin, the people have been on the streets protesting and demanding their will be respected.

HDP Urfa MP, Nusrettin Maçin, talked to ANF about the usurpation of the municipalities. It was in Urfa when the MP held a press release upon learning the decision of the AKP.

After that Maçin was in Amed protesting with the people for a week. "In Amed - he said - there is a very strong network of resistance. We MPs, stood with the people and faced the violence of the police."

Underlining that this process started on 7 June 2015, Maçin added that the AKP government deceived the Kurds by naming the process 'solution process'.

Maçin said that this deception policy did not succeed and that the developments in Rojava were not as the AKP wanted. In fact the AKP became more inconsistent and it then decided to end the solution process.

Since then, the AKP has carried out a war policy and more violence. "The first flare of this war - said Maçin - was thrown at the Diyarbakır rally. The explosions in Suruç and Ankara soon followed this."

Maçin said that it clearly appears that the AKP is actually at war with the peoples of Kurdistan both in Rojava and Bakur. "In alliance with the MHP on 1 November, the AKP has been waging this war against Kurds for 4 years. Trustees have been appointed to Kurdish cities before and we saw what they did: their period was one of corruption and plunder."

Maçin said that "after losing the main metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, the AKP has once again taken it on Kurds and has appointed trustees. But our people have a long history of struggle against these coup traditions."

The Urfa MP continued: "Indeed we consider this trustees appointment as the last move of a force which is declining fast. We can all see deep cracks in the AKP-MHP alliance."