In the Southeast of Turkey, the HDP has achieved in the municipal elections with good results. The joy of the HDP voters but The AKP government could put their municipalities under compulsory administration.
“The fact that we have won the local elections, is very pleasing. Now, finally, the will of the people must be accepted. Only our own city’s administration to guide our fortunes,” says a young woman in the DW. Two older ladies with head scarf on and off. “Why should we come back now with a receivership? What have they lost here? The will not accept. The winner of the elections, may God protect.” On the streets of Diyabakir, the second largest city of southeastern Anatolia, one hears often: What is a democratically elected mayor, anyway, if the forced administrator of the AKP government will come from Ankara?
“Historic Result”: Feleknas Uca
In municipal elections last weekend Diyabakir went with almost 63 percent of the prokurdische HDP. The election result is historic, the HDP Deputy Feleknas Uca. “The result is the response of the people to destruction, denial, and heteronomy” (by the government of Erdogan – ed.), you said the DW. Although the HDP lost to the West of the country, some of the municipalities. However, the highly competitive Metropolitan regions Diyabakir, Van and Mardin, could decide the HDP. A total of 48 municipalities could conquer from the ACP.
Hangover-mood in Diyabakir
But the hope for genuine self-determination in the Kurdish cities is not particularly large. In 2016, the Turkish government continued, the mayor of Diyabakir, Gültan Kisanak,, sentenced to 14 years in prison and sent to a forced administrator in the city; in 96 other Kurdish cities, mayors and Municipal Board members were replaced by the administrator with ACP-party book. The Turkish government has 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.
Bad Prospects For The Future
President Erdogan had already indicated that the administrator will continue their work. “You should go to the support for terrorists, we will use again the administrator forced,” he said repeatedly in his campaign performances.
Conflicts between PKK militia and the Turkish government: The town of Diyarbakir has been partially destroyed
Many politicians of the HDP dam struggle about values during election that gave the HDP and the other opposition parties, no broadcasting time in Radio and television. In addition, Erdogan has built a threatening backdrop. “Our supporters are being threatened. Police officer films the people who come to us on the courses, register your name. We are exposed to pressure, violence and interference,” said the HDP Board member Sezai Temelli, in the run-up to local elections.
Whether the democratically elected HDP-mayor, or a forced administrator of Ankara: the secret capital of The Kurds needed an effective municipal administration. Because there is hardly any Turkish metropolis is buffeted from the economic crisis, how to Diyabakir. And: there is Hardly a Turkish city must take in more refugees who have fled over the nearby border with Syria in Turkey.