Speaking in Birecik district of Urfa where she was carrying out her election campaign work, HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) co-chair and candidate, Pervin Buldan, reiterated that the 24 June election will be a historic date for the fate of Turkey.

Speaking to people, Buldan said: “The peoples of Turkey living here, Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, Syriacs, the women and youth face a crucial choice on 24 June. A choice that will change our fate”.

Noting that Urfa has a fertile soil, Buldan said: “Despite this, they [the AKP regime] have condemned the people of Urfa to unemployment and poverty by not using these lands. Our young people have not been able to plant crops in these lands and had to move to big cities”.

Racist attacks

Buldan said that racist attacks are being experienced by Kurdish workers on a daily basis and noted “on Sunday, two workers were attacked in Ankara for being Kurds”.

The HDP co-chair said that “they are trying to put the people of Turkey one against the other. But we will never break away from each other. We will all live together in brotherhood and freely in these lands”.

Buldan then reminded the massacres of Suruç and Ankara. “As HDP, we promise we will take the AKP government to account for each and every one of our people who fell”.

Talking about the HDP deputies being stripped of impunity and charge, Buldan said: “They didn’t know us, didn’t see us, did not hear us. For that, they stripped our deputies of their impunity. But there are thousands of Osman Baydemir, Abraham Ayhan, and Dilek Ocalan, today”.

Buldan added: “They stripped our deputies of their impunity, we will make them [the AKP] fall”.

The HDP co-chair underlined that the AKP regime tried to destroy any sign of Kurdishness in this country. “Four years ago they said Kobane was going to fall, and blamed Demirtaş for the deaths during protests in solidarity with Kobane. But we know that the government wanted to see the DAESH (ISIS) flags here. The Kurdish people did not allow them. We will not let them do it”.

Buldan added that “the AKP sabotaged the peace process. A hard isolation regime is imposed on Abdullah Ocalan for his contribution to peace, freedom and democracy. They want to punish the Kurdish people. After 24 June, together we will lift this heavy regime imposed on Ocalan”.

Pervin Buldan ended by giving the country a message of peace, democracy, freedom. “Let’s go to the polls on 24 June, let’s send our deputies to Parliament”.