Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), is set to retain its control over key cities in the local elections held on Sunday, March 31, 2024.
Republican People's Party, or CHP, supporters gather outside the City Hall in Ankara, Sunday, March 31, 2024. Turkey 's main opposition party appeared set to retain its control over key cities in Sunday's local elections , preliminary resultsYou’ll have seen the adverts on the telly. Happy healthy young people enjoying themselves on the Aegean coast.
No sooner were the votes counted than the Ministry of Justice demanded the local court disbar Zeydan and replace him with Erdoğan’s candidate who had received just 27% of the vote. It’s hard to imagine any government so blatantly overturning an election result in this way. An example is in Siirt city centre which DEM’s predecessor the HDP won narrowly in 2019 against Erdoğan’s AKP. Since last May’s general election, registered voters at one address increased from 10 to more than 2000 and at another building – owned by the police – from seven to 1996. At a third address which hadn’t previously existed, 2555 men who had never voted before in Siirt now appeared on the register.These are the ones that were spotted.
Until 1991, the very existence of Kurds was denied, the Turkish government referring to them as “mountain Turks”. The Kurdish language was banned, and those who spoke or sung in it were imprisoned. Still today, it is illegal for schools to teach in the Kurdish language – even in places where that is the language spoken by most of their pupils.
Since Erdoğan’s election as president in 2014, he has doubled down on the demonisation of Kurdish people. Following the failed 2016 coup, Kurdish parties who had opposed the coup were nonetheless blamed for it and their repression intensified. Erdoğan unashamedly nurtured and galvanised a right-wing Turkish nationalism in which minorities like Kurdish people were the enemy. Speaking Kurdish, or engaging in Kurdish cultural activities was likened to terrorist activity. And it worked.
From demonising their culture to razing their villages to the ground, the attacks by the Turkish state have driven many Kurds to leave. Many are here.
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