This fire will burn you, shout people in Diyarbakýr
This fire will burn you, shout people in Diyarbakýr
Thousands of people staged sit in actions to protest against the quashing of MP for Diyarbakýr Hatip Dicle's mandate by the Election Board on Tuesday.
The people gathered in Diyarbakýr in front of the BDP building in Yeniþehir for an unlimited sit in chanting slogans like, "You will burn with your own fire".
Kurdish people, voters of the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc and its newly elected deputies began to demonstrate against Supreme Election Board’s (YSK) decision to strip Hatip Dicle of his legitimate mandate.
Newly elected deputy and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Ahmet Türk addressed the attendees of the DTK Permanent Assembly’s Extraordinary Congress in Diyarbakýr, today. "The decision - said Türk - revealed the government’s real intentions about Kurdish problem. Democratic nation, democratic constitution and democratic republic are our main goals that we have been fighting for years. Now the government needs to account before the public who chose Dicle. We are calling on whole democratic forces to react together for democratic rights.”
BDP Ceylanpýnar Branch in Urfa will protest against the YSK’s decision with press meeting and march tomorrow.
The Block’s voters in Ýstanbul will stage an action in Taksim Square, in the Centre of Ýstanbul, today.
The Oppressed People’s Socialist Party (ESP) Diyarbakýr, Dersim, Malatya, Antep and Nurhak Branch organizations condemned the decision and called its supporters to stand with Kurdish people.
The Independent and Revolutionary Labor Platform (BDSP) emphasized the anti-democratic practices which try to take Kurdish People’s will under control. The BDSP called on people to act with Kurdish people.
Generally, the decision was evaluated as part of March 2nd 1994 mentality that ten Kurdish MP were taken into custody from the parliament and sent to prisons. Four of them; Hatip Dicle, Leyla Zana, Orhan Doðan and Selim Sadak spent 10 years in prison until 2005 when they were released. Hatip Dicle has been in prison since December 2009.
The people gathered in Diyarbakýr in front of the BDP building in Yeniþehir for an unlimited sit in chanting slogans like, "You will burn with your own fire".
Kurdish people, voters of the Labor, Democracy and Freedom Bloc and its newly elected deputies began to demonstrate against Supreme Election Board’s (YSK) decision to strip Hatip Dicle of his legitimate mandate.
Newly elected deputy and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Ahmet Türk addressed the attendees of the DTK Permanent Assembly’s Extraordinary Congress in Diyarbakýr, today. "The decision - said Türk - revealed the government’s real intentions about Kurdish problem. Democratic nation, democratic constitution and democratic republic are our main goals that we have been fighting for years. Now the government needs to account before the public who chose Dicle. We are calling on whole democratic forces to react together for democratic rights.”
BDP Ceylanpýnar Branch in Urfa will protest against the YSK’s decision with press meeting and march tomorrow.
The Block’s voters in Ýstanbul will stage an action in Taksim Square, in the Centre of Ýstanbul, today.
The Oppressed People’s Socialist Party (ESP) Diyarbakýr, Dersim, Malatya, Antep and Nurhak Branch organizations condemned the decision and called its supporters to stand with Kurdish people.
The Independent and Revolutionary Labor Platform (BDSP) emphasized the anti-democratic practices which try to take Kurdish People’s will under control. The BDSP called on people to act with Kurdish people.
Generally, the decision was evaluated as part of March 2nd 1994 mentality that ten Kurdish MP were taken into custody from the parliament and sent to prisons. Four of them; Hatip Dicle, Leyla Zana, Orhan Doðan and Selim Sadak spent 10 years in prison until 2005 when they were released. Hatip Dicle has been in prison since December 2009.
