The only way for Kurdistan: Revolution

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Kurtulus no. 47, 20 September 1997

The only way for Kurdistan: Revolution

"Demirel's reality"

"I don't agree that there is a Kurdish problem in Turkey, there is
rather a terrorist problem"... This view is not new amongst the
oligarchy in Turkey. For years it has been repeated literally by
politicians and the military. Last week it was repeated again. The
context in which this sentence was said is interesting: it was
Demirel's answer to a statement by HADEP (Halkin Demokrasi Partisi,
Democracy Party of the People) chairman Bozlak during his visit to the
prime minister's office in the context of his "HADEP Dialogue Tour".
This statement by Demirel was classified as "unexpected" by especially
the Kurdish nationalists. "If this is meant seriously, the Turkish
state is not taking the peace calls seriously", the indignant Kurdish
nationalists said. Must this view, repeated time and again for 40
years, be repeated once more to come to this conclusion? So why does
one wonder? Because it has been the same Demirel who stated in 1991:
"Yes, we do recognise the reality of the Kurds". 

In 1991, the representatives of the HEP (Halkin Emek Partisi, Workers
People's Party) joint the list of the SHP (Sosyal Demokrat Halkci
Partisi, Social Democratic People's Party) for the elections and
entered parliament as SHP delegates. Because of the votes won by the
HEP representatives, the SHP were confident to enter a coalition with
the DYP. The above mentioned statement was made by Demirel as the
leader of this coalition. This statement was taken very seriously and
the expectations were accordingly. These expectations could also be
heard when the SHP entered the elections. What happened then? The
coalition made sure that the people were put under more pressure than
before.  Because said Demirel is a loyal representative of the
oligarchy. Every time he governs, he makes sure that more blood is
shed. 

The oligarchy pursues a Kurdish policy from its own perspective. This
policy is accompanied by several kinds of demagogy and a fake
democracy. When this is overlooked, one gets blinded by the pseudo
democracy. The Kurdish nationalists took the bourgeois parties and
politicians seriously, based on this pseudo democracy. This policy
promises "heaven on earth", but practice is contrary. How do we react
to such promises? Should we satisfy ourselves with the hope that these
promises will be kept in the future? Now is the moment that we see the
real faces of Demirel, Yilmaz and Boyner. Neither the Kurdish problem,
nor the democratic struggle benefit of the HADEP, playing along on the
political level. Only because the HADEP is a legal party, she does not
have to integrate in bourgeois politics. Under the motto "Search for
Dialogue", the HADEP visited Demirel, Yilmaz and Cindoruk .Visiting
Ecevit was not deemed "important and useful". The importance of a
dialogue with Demirel and Yilmaz is questionable. The HADEP stated
after the meeting that it had been useful and all went
positively. What can have been so useful and positive? In the name of
the Kurdish people, the HADEP visits Demirel who labels the struggle
of the Kurds as terror, who massacres, oppresses and burns down
villages. And the HADEP remains silent about all this. This conduct
can not be explained by claiming that the HADEP uses parliament only
as a means to achieve a goal. This conduct is quite clearly bourgeois
politics of a bourgeois party. Either you should not have gone to this
meeting, let alone remain silent. You should have stood behind the
liberation struggle. Or you should stop claiming to represent the
Kurdish people. When parliament is used as a means to achieve a goal,
one should not act in a way that the hopes of the people for the
fulfilment of empty promises are fanned. Revolutionaries or Kurdish
nationalists should, when they use elections for parliament or similar
platforms, use them for the benefit of the people and fight for its
freedom.


-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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