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| The Grand Turk |
| Demirtas: Erdogan staged coup against Parliament, ruling party |
| 2016-03-03 |
| [TODAYSZAMAN] Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas has said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... joined ranks with potential coup supporters and carried out a coup against the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government and Parliament in order to prevent anyone from toppling him from power. "We are living through a coup period right now. We have already had a coup; it's happened. It was after July 7. And now, we have a coup government leading ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ," Demirtas said during an exclusive interview with Haberdar online news portal that was made available on Tuesday and Wednesday. "There could have been a coup against Erdogan; instead, what he did was to join forces with coup supporters and carry out his own coup against the government. All of which is why the government has been completely bypassed at this stage. Not even a police officer will listen to [Prime Minister Ahmet] Davutoglu," he said. Since the June 7 general election of last year, in which the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Erdogan's former party, failed to win enough seats to rule as a single party, Turkey has been hit with violence due to festivities between the Turkish security forces and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) following the end of a settlement process between the government and the PKK last July. Demirtas said that when Erdogan restarted the war with the PKK, he knew that the government was not in control of all the instruments of the state and that it controlled neither the police, the military nor the bureaucracy. "When the war that he himself had provoked broke out, Erdogan saw that the government actually couldn't fight against the PKK effectively. ... I think Erdogan needed to make a choice. He saw that he was going to lose. ... The war that he provoked after June 7 caused a level of social outrage he hadn't predicted as we headed toward the Nov. 1 [2015 snap election]. He had to make a choice. In order to get the state institutions that weren't tied to him, like the military and the police, to fight for him, he had to strike compromises with them. This is why he had private meetings with the Ergenekon people, the supporters of [ultra-nationalist Workers' Party (IP) leader Dogu] Perincek, the former BBP [Grand Unity Party] people and so on," Demirtas said. |
| Posted by:Fred |