AMED, NORTHERN KURDISTAN
Ten Kurdish parties united at a meeting in Amed, calling for national unity.
Democratic Party of People (HDP), Democratic Party of Regions (DBP), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), the Revolutionary Democratic Kurdish Society (DDKD), Kurdistan Democratic Party in Turkey (KDP-T), the Kurdistan Democratic Party North (KDP- Bakur), Human and Freedom Party, Azadi Movement, Azadi Party and Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP) representatives of Amed yesterday announced the declaration of their meeting for national unity.
In the Central Yenişehir district meeting, DTK Co-Chairman Berdan Ozturk, DBP Co-Chairman Keskin Bayindir, HDP MPs Tayyip Temel and Nusrettin Maçin attended as party representatives. The declaration was read in Turkish by DBP Co-Chair Saliha Aydeniz and Kurdish by Mehmet Kamaç, Chairman of the Human and Freedom Party.
DECLARATION
We urge the Kurdish people to unite their forces against oppression and assimilation!
“The AKP-MHP government violates the existing laws and international norms, removing elected Mayors and elected parliamentarians with the votes of our people. Thus, it strikes a blow to local democracy and the determination of our people’s political will by election. It clearly does not recognize the will of our people.
Arbitrary arrests, abductions, raids and homes arrests against the Kurdish political cadred continue unabated. The power is effectively abolishing the right of our people and elected representatives to make legal, legitimate politics.
What happened here and beyond the borders is in our people and in the political cadres an accumulation of anger. It necessitates new inquiries in order to effectively counter the legitimate-legal basis, especially the national alliance.
Developments in Kurdistan: Resistance has made the people of Kurdistan the center of attention of the peoples of the world and the public.
It has created a strong international public opinion in favor of our people. If we associate and join forces; international acceptance and support for our democratic, peaceful and political struggle will be even stronger.
The demand of our people to overcome the difficult conditions we face is to jointly oppose national oppression and assimilation, poverty and economic collapse together.
To this end, the following undersigned political parties and movements held a meeting on the agenda of national alliance on 05 December 2019. ”
DECLARATION
In the declaration, the plans agreed at the meeting were listed as follows:
I- “To create a National Alliance in Northern Kurdistan;
II- To pursue its activities under the name of Kurdistan Alliance Work in order to reach a permanent National Alliance;
III- Conduct a two-day workshop on 18-19 January 2020 on the structure, framework, components, functioning, path and method of the National Alliance;
IV- Organizing the workshop preparation by a commission of five people;
V- We are open to all of our Kurdistani parties and movements, which have not already taken part in the initial phase of the National Alliance activity, to participate in the Kurdistani Alliance Work.”
CALL
At the end of the declaration, the following call was made:
As the Kurdistan Alliance Study, which takes into consideration the sensitivities, concerns and gains of our country and our people; Our call to our people, intellectuals, artists, all non-governmental organizations, is support us with your opinions, suggestions and criticisms in this historical march that we take a step in to today.
We say that we should shoulder this march together and enlarge the goal of a permanent National Alliance together.”
The declaration signatories are:
- Azadî Movement
- Partiya Azadî
- Democratic Regions Party – DBP
- Revolutionary Democratic Kurdish Association – DDKD
- Democratic Society Congress -DTK
- People’s Democratic Party – HDP
- Human and Freedom Party – EP
- Kurdistan Communist Party – KKP
- Demokratên Kurd to the Platform – PDK-Bakur
- Party to Kurdistan Tirkiye -PDK-T. ”
