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How many fingers pulled the trigger?

When a man raided the HDP İzmir Provincial Organisation building and killed Deniz Poyraz it is a murder with many perpetrators. We all know how many finger prints are on that trigger.

When someone raided the HDP İzmir Provincial Organisation building and shot and killed Deniz Poyraz it was a murder with many perpetrators.
We all know the finger prints that pulled the trigger.  
 
The criminalisation of political parties is a state policy which predates HDP and Turkey’s recent political history. Targeting rhetoric, criminalising headlines and subsequent bullets, party building bombings are all common.
 
The March 27, 1994 elections, in which the pro-Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP) announced its withdrawal from the elections, is a test ground in this respect. Before the elections, when Erdoğan was elected as the Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor from the Islamist Welfare party (RP), the buildings of the DEP were bombed one by one. Finally, its headquarters in Ankara were bombed.  
 
Today, a blunt and open strategy in which the survival of the ruling alliance is linked to the detention of HDP is at work once again. President Erdogan has repeatedly used rhetoric that put the HDP on the target board. His partner Bahçeli also worked hard to shut down the HDP.  
 
In co-ordination with every military operation carried out across the border, HDP was also targeted internally. When Veyis Ateş (a corrupt journalist), who taught us how not to practice journalism, openly stated that Habertürk screens were closed to HDP on 17 June 2020, and justified this with universal broadcasting principles, it was a sultry surfacing of this racist policy.  
 
Let us remind you of the words of Presidential Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, on Twitter on the day the Supreme Court of Appeal Chief Public Prosecutor's Office applied to the Constitutional Court for the closure of HDP: “A prosecutor filed a court order with the Constitutional Court earlier today and demanded the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party. It is an indisputable fact that HDP has organic ties with the PKK, which Turkey, the USA and the European Union consider a terrorist organisation. With their words and actions, HDP's top leaders and spokespersons have repeatedly and consistently proven that they are the political wing of the PKK".
 
These words, which made a clear judgment from the top of the state, even before the case had begun, were supported by the headlines of the ruling media.  Add to these the Kobanê case, which came to the fore as a result of a political lynching against HDP members and administrators.  
 
As a result of all this, when a man raided the HDP İzmir Provincial Organisation building and killed Deniz Poyraz it is a murder with many perpetrators. We all know how many finger prints are on that trigger. And those bullets are for all of us. Those bullets were fired at the will of millions who voted for HDP at the ballot box. It is a bullet by government officials who don’t want even a dust of hope for peace.

Even in the face of such an open attack, the effort of the ruling media to present the event by blaming HDP is not surprising.  To turn a blind eye on such corruption, enemy legislation and polarisation politics means paving the way for them.  The hope here is for the survivability of their power based on blood and nothing else.


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