Congratulations DTP!

After a very rigorous period of campaigning and fighting against all odds the DTP (Democratic Society Party or Partiya Civaka Demokratik) managed to get most votes in 8 cities of Kurdistan and consequently mayoralties which are: Amed (Diyarbekir), Êlih(Batman), Sêrt(Siirt), Colemêrg(Hekkari), Shirnex(Shirnak), Wan(Van), Idir(Igdir), and Dêrsim(Tunceli).

When one thinks about what kind of difficulties the DTP had to fight in order to win in these cities, one appreciates their success much more. It is a success that has been won on the lives of so many martyrs of Kurdistan, it is a success that has been won on the tortures and imprisonment of so many young kids, it is a success that has been won on tortures, destruction of thousands of villages, burning forests, shortly many big sacrifices. Thus it deserves to be celebrated joyously, and DTP should be congratulated once again for what they accomplished.

It is not an easy thing to win those 8 cities when all of the political parties in Turkey are united against you to crush you, it is not easy when all of the bureaucrats including governors are all working against you; it is not easy especially when the bloody korucus(village guards) and soldiers and the police hold a gun on the voters' necks and threatens to kill them if they vote for the DTP. That is why they should be congratulated over an over again. Not only the DTP politicians and activists but also the Kurdish people as a whole should be congratulated for their courageous work, because if it was not for their bravery and sacrifices this would have happened.

We have been hearing from the news, and by that I dont mean the sold out/corrupt/fascist media of Turkey or Dogan, but rather real and honest news agencies/papers that a lot of the votes that were cast for the DTP were either burnt, thrown away or counted for other parties, as it is the case in Chewlik(Bingol) for instance. And in Agiri(Agri), election council of the city has repeatedly rejected the objections of the DTP of the vote fraud. And they are not accepting to recount the votes, because they know if they do that the DTP will most likely win there, too.

Agiri, Chewlik, Mush, Mêrdin(Mardin), and Bilis(Bitlis) also should have been won. But I am not blaming the DTP for it, as I know the have tried their best to win. And probably DTP would have won in those cities as well if the deep-state or the superficial and corrupt state did not cast shadows on the voting and counting procedure. In other words, if they did not steal the vote that were cast for the DTP.

Even then, what the DTP has got is a big success and a big blow at the face of all of the system parties and Turkish government and military that were all united against the Kurds and their righteous representatives. They all hate each other AKP, CHP, MHP, military, bureaucracy, but when it comes to the Kurds they all unite immediately because they hate us the Kurds that much that they undermine their hatreds or differences. I think this we should take a lesson from as the Kurds.

We should unite around our commonalities, and not be divided based on our small differences or small and temporary interests. We should show them that we are the Kurds, and proud of being Kurds and that they will never ever be able to finish us as for every one of us that they take there will be ten more waiting in line.

I think now the international arena, the EU and the USA should understand this very clearly; the only legitimate representative of the Kurds is the DTP, not AKP or any other entity. And consequently show the respect and due attention to the DTP immediately!