Cahit K\u0131rkazak, who was elected as the new co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) after the general elections, gave his first interview to Gazete Duvar. Answering the questions of Gazete Duvar Diyarbak\u0131r Representative Vecdi Erbay, K\u0131rkazak talked about the HDP and the Green Left equation in politics.<\/p>\n
Responding to the question of how to alleviate voters\u2018 concerns about \u2019re-appointment of trustees\u2018 ahead of the local elections, K\u0131rkazak invited all voters to the polls. K\u0131rkazak described the idea that \u2019trustees will be appointed anyway\u2018 as a \u2019perception operation\u201c of the government and said, \u201dEven if we hit the wall, we should not lose the determination and resolve to fight.\".<\/p>\n
Emphasizing that they are looking for organizational ways and mechanisms to prevent the appointment of a trustee, K\u0131rkazak said, \u201cWe will not be in an attitude of compromise to prevent the appointment of a trustee. We will not make fundamental rights and freedoms a bargaining chip to prevent the appointment of a trustee.\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTurkish society needs to fight shoulder to shoulder with the HDP and the Green Left Party here,\u201d K\u0131rkazak said:<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause there are very clear historical experiences. When Armenians were treated in this geography, Armenians were neighbors, friends and cousins of Kurds. The Armenians would say to the Kurds, \u2018Kirvem, don't, if we are breakfast in the morning, you are lunch.\u2019 We can say to the society in Turkey, \u2018If the Kurds are lunch, you are all dinner.\u2019 Then we need to take an example from historical experiences and fight shoulder to shoulder. If a trustee is appointed in Diyarbak\u0131r, there is no guarantee that a trustee will not be appointed in Istanbul.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018HDP IS THE ROADMAP FOR LIVING TOGETHER IN TURKEY\u2019<\/strong> Stating that the HDP will transfer its experience to the Green Left Party, K\u0131rkazak said, \u201cBut at the same time, as a legal entity, we will believe in law and democracy and will continue to defend the HDP before the Constitutional Court and the judiciary. Our political and social struggle will continue on the Green Left. But we will also continue to defend and protect HDP legally.\u201d.<\/p>\n COBANE TRIAL: \u2018CONTEMPORARY EMILE ZOLAS NEEDED\u2019<\/strong> Cahit K\u0131rkazak explained how the events in Koban\u00ea started as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cIn Turkey, trials are based on perceptions. They are not based on the reality and content of the files. For example, everyone knows that these events started because Mr. Selahattin tweeted. However, this happened right after ISIS barbarians attacked Shengal. There were marches in Turkey and around the world in support of Koban\u00ea. And we don't call it the events of October 6-8, we call it the events of October 7-8. Because there had not been a single violent incident until Erdo\u011fan's statement in Gaziantep on October 7: \u2018Koban\u00ea has fallen and will fall\u2019. Immediately after Erdo\u011fan's statement, the first incident of violence took place in Mu\u015f Varto. Hakan Buksur was killed by a bullet fired from the gun of a law enforcement officer and then the violence started.<\/p>\n Let me talk about perception, for example, there is no such tweet by Mr. Selahattin. Selahattin Bey has repeatedly said in court, \u201cMake a statement; show that such a statement has been made in audio, verbal and video form, we are willing to do anything. It is that clear. For example, the public still hasn't heard this. There is still a claim that these incidents started after Mr. Selahattin's tweet.<\/p>\n Now I will give a historical example for this case to get out of that courtroom. The Albert Dreyfus case. Albert Dreyfus was a French soldier who was tried and sentenced to death on the grounds that he was an intelligence officer of a foreign state based on fabricated evidence, a handwriting found in a wastebasket. After the case is over, Emile Zola takes up the case because he receives such a request from Albert Dreyfus' family. And Emile Zola realizes that Albert Dreyfus' writing is not the same as the one found in the garbage, and he starts to write and analyze it.<\/p>\n After Emile Zola exposed the Albert Dreyfus case, Albert Dreyfus was tried again and acquitted. In order for the Koban\u00ea case to be socialized, modern Emile Zola's are needed. Therefore, the signatures of intellectuals are very valuable. We thank them very much, bless their hearts. But we suggest one more thing, we invite these intellectuals and friends to the courtrooms. Let them come and listen to what happened in the courtroom; the procedure, the merits, the approach of the police, the approach of the court, the way the state is present there... Because the state is there as a whole: National Intelligence Organization, General Staff, all army commands, General Directorate of Security, Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization, AKP, MHP, HUDA PAR, Religious Affairs...\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018COMMON STRUGGLE STARTS IN SINCAN\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n K\u0131rkazak made a call to all political parties and said that they should fight together to publicize what happened in the Koban\u00ea trial. Inviting everyone to the courtroom, K\u0131rkazak continued as follows:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd let them see how only political representatives in the tradition of the HDP defend the democracy, law and coexistence of the country and let them tell about it. Let them explain it in their articles, columns, columns, television programs so that the society in Turkey can learn what is happening there. No one knows what is happening there. We thank all our intellectuals, writers, illustrators and artists for these signatures, but we also invite them to the courtroom.<\/p>\n If the opposition wants to build a struggle for democracy and common life, they need to start with the Kobane trial in Sincan. We are also saying this to the political parties: Each political party should send one of their parliamentarian friends for a period of time. They should come and tell what they saw there - we are not saying for or against - in the parliament, in the group. Let the Turkish society see what is happening there. Let them see the Kurds\u201d will to live together. And Erdo\u011fan's will to suffocate and destroy the Kurds.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Genel se\u00e7imler sonras\u0131 kongreye giden Halklar\u0131n Demokratik Partisi’nde (HDP) yeni e\u015f genel ba\u015fkan se\u00e7ilen Cahit K\u0131rkazak ilk r\u00f6portaj\u0131n\u0131 Gazete Duvar’a verdi. Gazete Duvar Diyarbak\u0131r Temsilcisi Vecdi Erbay’\u0131n sorular\u0131n\u0131 yan\u0131tlayan K\u0131rkazak, siyasette HDP ve Ye\u015fil Sol denkleminde merak edilenleri anlatt\u0131. 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\nHDP cadres entered the elections as part of the Green Left Party after the party faced the threat of being shut down. Commenting on why the HDP is still open despite the Green Left Party's entry into the Turkish Grand National Assembly, K\u0131rkazak said that the HDP is the first joint struggle of the Kurds and socialists in Turkey for a democratic republic. K\u0131rkazak emphasized that they had electoral partnerships from time to time before, but HDP was the first organized structure under the same roof where they carried out an organizational struggle. \u201cIn this sense, HDP is a very valuable organization for Turkey. We can consider it as the compass and road map of Turkey's coexistence,\u201d K\u0131rkazak said, adding, \u201cWe care that this philosophy and this will survives and continues as a memory for the society in Turkey.\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nK\u0131rkazak, one of the lawyers in the Kobane trial, said that the trial was not on the public agenda. K\u0131rkazak stated that what happened should be publicized more and that he found it very valuable that intellectuals signed a petition for the release of the detainees.<\/p>\n