After the local elections in Turkey, in the East of the country, politicians prokurdischen Locally, by a decree of the mayor’s office denied. Is covered the approach of the High electoral Commission law?
People in Diyarbakir Is implemented in your voters ‘ will?
In five Eastern Anatolian districts of the choice of the winner of the prokurdischen HDP will not be able to move in-party in the city halls. In parts of the city of Diyarbakir, Van and Kars, the HDP have decided-candidates with a clear voice ahead of the local elections – they were given however, no official approval of the independent High electoral Commission of your office. The authority decided instead to hand over the second-placed candidate of the AKP President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the mayor’s office.
The HDP candidate has already been adopted before the election a so-called emergency decree by the government, that is to say, they were banished from the state service. Regulations of this type have been after the coup attempt on 15. July 2016 introduced. They make it possible to dismiss state employees, or to suspend, as soon as a vague Terror suspicion. And have been allowed to compete, the five candidates for election?
“In stark contradiction with the Turkish Constitution”
According to the HDP deputies Rüstu Tiryaki, who represents his party in the independent High electoral Commission would have to inform the panel of the HDP on the suspension and its consequences. “There are no warnings were issued”. In addition, he stressed that the electoral law, no provision to run the people that were suspended by a decree, forbids.
The Professor of law and Deputy of the opposition Republican people’s party (CHP), Ibrahim Kaboglu, explained to DW that the election Commission had to ensure orderly elections, but not the right to ignore the will of the electorate. “The decision of the election Commission is in stark contradiction with the Turkish Constitution”, he says.
Mithat Sancar want to appeal
“The election Commission part of a conspiracy”
The HDP Deputy Mithat Sancar is outraged. “The decision is neither of reason, nor the law nor of morality. It’s just awful that now the second-placed candidate for mayor.” The HDP-speaker Saruhan Oluc chose more drastic words: “The election Commission is now also a part of the conspiracy, on the side of (extreme-right) MHP and the AKP”. Critics attest to the High electoral Commission in a close proximity to the AKP government. You would have made in elections in the last few years, always on the side of the ACP, is a common complaint.
Dismissal by administrator or emergency decree?
In addition, HDP-speaker Oluc has compared the exclusion of the HDP candidate by decree, with a “forced administration”. “If the Elected do not receive approval, and instead, the losers to the town hall to move in, then this is nothing more than a forced administration,” Oluc.
The recent treatment of opposition candidates in the municipal election reminded many of the Kurds to the government’s actions in the past few years, as an administrator have been sent to the Kurdish areas. Since 2016 Erdogan in 97 Kurdish municipalities, the mayor and Municipality Board members through the ACP-has replaced close to representative. The Turkish government accused the HDP mayor to cooperate with the Kurdish terrorist organization PKK, and 40 of them are in custody. The decisive factor was that the PKK militias occupied in the summer of 2015, several cities and declared Autonomous zones – as a result, the Turkish government was forced to Act.
Although the HDP could take back now in the municipal elections, almost 50 municipalities from the AKP. However, despite the good election results little Kurds believe in self-determination. Because President Erdogan had already indicated during the election campaign, that the forced administrator will continue their work.