The DTK (Democratic Society Congress) meeting has ended with the organization releasing a seven-points declaration.
Ahmet Türk, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK), has called the decision by the Election Board "neither moral nor legal. This is a decision - he added - to drag Turkey into a state of chaos”. And he said: “The nation will hold this mentality, which blocks efforts for democracy, accountable”.
The deputies elected from the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block will meet tomorrow to both evaluate the DTK call and decide what to do next. The DTK called on the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) not to enter in Parliament. The BDP has said that a decision will be taken tomorrow at the deputies meeting.
DTK declaration is articulated in the following 7 points;
1- We invite the AKP government and the main opposition party in particular to prevent this obvious provocation and to absolutely revoke the decision and we invite the Grand National Assembly to urgently take the situation in hand and to open the democratic ways.
2 - For the revoking of the decision urgently and for opening the way of our people's democratic representation through Mr. Hatip Dicle, we call all our people to stage their civil and democratic acts everywhere with a patriotic mobilization spirit.
3 - As the largest civil and political framework of Kurdistan, our congress calls all its components, organizations and institutions, civil society organizations, individuals and opinion leaders to display their most transparent attitude against this fascist decision and to present their democratic activities.
4 - At the same time, we call all our components to adopt all institutions of the Democratic Autonomy which is the solution project of our people approved by elections results and to implement it with all aspects including the proclamation of the construction process.
5 - In accordance with the decision of our largest political party BDP that "None of the MPs will enter the parliament even with a single missing", we urgently recommend all our people to publicly and clearly declare their freewill to Turkey and the world opinion.
6 - With the awareness that this anti-democratic decision is a blow struck to the brotherhood of peoples, we invite Turkey's all intellectual, democrat, progressive and revolutionary forces, the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block in particular, to stand by the resistance of our people for freedom and democracy.
7 - We invite all human rights and democracy organizations in the world, the EU, the EC, the UN in particular, to express their strongest condemnation to the Turkish Government and state which follows a policy of destruction and denial despite our indefinite insist on democratic and peaceful means to solve the Kurdish problem and to demand the revoking of the decision." (Translation: Berna Ozgencil)