VAN – HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Muş MP Mensur Işık, spoke on the symposium of HDP Youth Assembly. Işık drew attention to the isolation against PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and stated that isolation is also a war against Kurdish politics.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Youth Assembly held a public symposium in Van. The banners used in the symposium hall read: "We will definitely win", "We rise against the commodification policies of capitalism", "We organize free life with the labor of young women", "We will defeat fascism with the revolutionary youth spirit" and "We have risen, we resist, we walk on fascism".
HDP’s Van city Co-Chair Ökkeş Kava, objected to the camera set up by the police in the symposium hall. In the debate, which occurred after the objection that this application of police does not comply with the law and the cameras shall be out, police saying, "I will call all the security forces up in this hall” increased the tension.
HDP Muş MP Mensur Işık drew attention to the struggle and the historical background of the Kurdish people in the region. Işık told: “They are trying to erase us, they are trying to destroy us, but they have not been able to destroy us and they will never be able to destroy us.”
“ISOLATION CAME TOGETHER WITH THE CHAOS”
Reminding that PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan have been handed over to Turkey on February 15 1999, Işık stated: “There was an international conspiracy against Mr. Öcalan on February 15 1999. This conspiracy was not only against Kurdish people, bu to all the oppressed people around the world. As an outcome of the hunger strike leaded by our Leyla Güven comrade, the Co-Chair of Democratic Society Congress (DTK), the isolation was broken partially and Mr. Öcalan was able to interview with his lawyers 5 times in a raw, for the first time since July 27 2011. I think we have a perspective about the isolation against Mr. Öcalan; with the means of the isolation against Mr. Öcalan always comes forward in the agenda whenever there is a dilemma between chaos and peace process or the mechanics of Coup d’Etat and the democratization or the peace and the war. Whenever the isolation against Öcalan gets harder, we say that the time for a Coup d’Etat has come closer and not inly in Turkey, but also in Iran, in Iraq and in Syria, the anti-Kurdish motivations will increase. This war also means a war against the Kurdish politics.”