‘The struggle for peace and democracy must go hand in hand’

2025-09-12 10:33:42


	 

	İZMİR - Noting that the government has entered the last corner to make itself permanent, DEM Party member Musa Piroğlu said: "Unless the Kurdish people and the working classes of Turkey stand shoulder to shoulder, we will not have a chance to emerge victorious from this process." 

	 

	While the process that started with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for a Democratic Society continues, the pressure on the opposition continues. 

	 

	The appointment of a trustee to the Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul Provincial Presidency is seen as the first step of the lawsuit to be held on 15 September and the appointment of a trustee to the CHP Headquarters is on the agenda. Again, the first hearing of the lawsuit against the Istanbul Bar Association administration was held. On the other side, the economic and social crisis is growing and ecological plunder is spreading everywhere. 

	 

	Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party Central Executive Board member Musa Piroğlu noted that similar scenes to the raid of HDP's Diyarbakır provincial office and the appointment of trustees to municipalities were experienced in Istanbul, and said that most of the citizens were anxious on the one hand and trying to understand what was going on on the other. 

	 

	Piroğlu stated that the CHP is facing a great wave of attacks and that this wave continues with operations against many organisations and names. "These attacks go beyond the CHP. The government wants to crush all social opposition, bring it into line and design it. He wants to lay the last stones in the construction of a regime," he said. 

	 

	'PEACE CAN ONLY BE POSSIBLE IN A DEMOCRATIC ENVIRONMENT'

	 

	Stating that there is a system that exploits the values of the country on the one hand and the Kurdish problem solution talks on the other, Piroğlu said that the practices against the Kurdish people in the past are being carried out in Turkey today in order for Erdoğan to perpetuate himself. 

	 

	He said: "As soon as the struggle for peace is combined with the struggle for democracy, it will progress to a level where both sides will win. No one can talk about democracy in a geography where peace is not achieved. No one can talk about a democratic peace in an autocratic regime."

	 

	Stating that the government could not convince even its own base, Piroğlu said that we are going through a period in which the state has theoretically completely disintegrated and that if Erdoğan emerges victorious from this process, everyone will lose. 

	 

	Piroğlu said that Erdoğan's attacks against the opposition are focussed on getting quick results and explained the reasons for these pressures as follows: "He cannot get what he wants in Rojava. The reason that brought Erdoğan to the table is that the international balances have changed and the Kurdish people have survived. Secondly, the risk of changing maps beyond the borders has emerged. It has ceased to be a viable situation for the state and capital."

	 

	'WE MUST COME SIDE BY SIDE'

	 

	Piroğlu asked "Is Erdoğan's loss alone enough?" and said that international powers and capital are satisfied with the structure of the current regime. Noting that the presidential system is wanted to be maintained in some way, Piroğlu said that Erdoğan has been carrying out pressures on a society that has lost its capacity to object. 

	 

	Piroğlu concluded: "If we cannot come together, the regime will continue to be permanent with small designs. Then we must continue the struggle in two dimensions. Unless the Kurdish people and the working classes of Turkey stand shoulder to shoulder, we will not have a chance to emerge victorious from this process. As long as we leave our fate to the two lips of capital, we can't get out of here."

	 

	MA / Tolga Guney