Military operations recently launched against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as remarks by a leading ruling party figure implying that a pro-Kurdish party often accused of being affiliated with the PKK (with no proof, and only claims of an inorganic relationship by the AKP, and typical b.s. from MHP) could be closed down may well be part of a government plan to carry the acting ruling party to power in a possible early election. After criticizing the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for failing to condemn the recent PKK violence, Mustafa Sentop, deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), said on Sunday political parties can be closed down only for one reason in Turkey, namely being linked to a terrorist organization. The AK party lost a significant number of voters to the HDP in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast in the June 7 election. This was a large blow to the AK Party as it failed, for the first time since coming to power in 2002, to win enough seats in Parliament to form a single-party government. "I feel this is part of a strategy to come to power as a single party," Seyfettin G"ursel, the director of Bahcesehir University's Center for Economic and Social Research (BETAM), told Today's Zaman. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was accused by the opposition of trying to block efforts to forge a coalition government after the election, is also widely claimed to be seeking an early election. Taking the military operations and the targeting of the HDP by the government as a sure sign of an early election, G"ursel added, "The AK Party could trying to close down the HDP if it feels it will not be able to push the HDP below the election threshold." Recent election --- Now (polling, freaking out AKP) --- The government may also be hoping that the bombing against the PKK, which started after the PKK murdered several security officials, would help the AK Party win back some of the nationalist votes that drifted to the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in the latest election. Until recently, the government has been adopting a "tolerant" attitude towards PKK activity in Turkey, which led some nationalist voters to turn their backs to the AK Party. "I feel the operations against the PKK are aimed at winning back nationalist voters," G"ursel said. Should the AK Party -- which currently has 258 seats in Parliament -- obtain 18 more seats in an early election, it will be able to form a party without needing a coalition partner. Speaking to reporters in Berlin on Sunday, the AK Party's Sentop accused HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas of failing to condemn the PKK violence despite talking about peace."There is only one reason for political party closures in Turkey, which is parties having relations with terrorist organizations. A party's open call to terrorism and violence and having relations with terrorist organizations is a reason for its closure," he added. Demirtas has criticized the PKK's revenge killings, urged restraint and expressed that "Every single human being killed in Turkey gives us the same pain." Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday in televised remarks that he is against party closures in principle. "As a party which has 80 seats in Parliament, The HDP should give up acting like the mouthpiece of the terrorist organization. It should defend politics, not weapons. They are asking would the PKK lay down arms on what the HDP says. You should say this. In principle, we support punishment of those whoever involved in a crime, not parties as a whole," Davutoglu said. Erdogan and the government are perhaps anticipating that the public would prefer a single-party government that could more easily tackle security problems during a period of crisis. To that end, they try and control the Internet --- If the HDP fails to pass the 10 percent election threshold and remained outside of Parliament, the AK Party would then receive a great majority of the HDP's seats, which would enable it to come to power as a single party. Several pro-government media outlets also recently accused HDP deputy Faysal Sariyildiz of picking up a courier heading for Suruc, a predominantly Kurdish town on the Syrian border, who was allegedly carrying weapons for the PKK.In a statement on Sunday, Sariyildiz denied the claim and said he would begin legal proceedings against the media outlets. He argued President Erdogan and the government are engaged in a defamation campaign against the HDP and have put a plan into action that will drag the country into a quagmire by fomenting chaos among the people. According to Sedat Laciner, a security analyst, President Erdogan is the main reason for the rise of tension in the country because it is Erdogan's own future that is at stake. Should the AK Party lose power, Erdogan and some of his associates could face sweeping charges of corruption and be called to account for claims of shady dealings, such as providing weapons to radical groups in Syria. While criticizing the government for having failed to prevent a deadly bombing attack in Suruc, HDP Co-chair Figen Y"uksekdag said during a meeting nearly 10 days ago, "We have the YPJ, the YPG and the PYD behind us. And we see no harm in declaring and defending that." The YPJ and the YPG, respectively, are female and male Kurdish fighters who are the armed wing of the PYD in Syria. The PYD is a Syrian offshoot of the PKK. Following the suicide bomb attack in the town of Suruc on Turkey's Syrian border last week in which 32 people lost their lives, the PKK killed several police officers and military personnel (ugh, no, not clear thinking), wounding several others in a number of attacks. The PKK attacks, reacting to the AKP's provocations, puts a definitive damper on an already stalled settlement process launched by the government in 2012 to put an end to the country's decades-old Kurdish issue. In support of Sentop's remarks about the HDP, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan underlined on Monday that those who are in politics need to give up any connections to terrorist organizations. In remarks obviously targeting the pro-Kurdish party, Akdogan said on Twitter: "Ideas of the most marginal kind can be expressed in politics . To impose these through the support of a organization would be taking democracy hostage. The nation and the law would not allow that." The HDP has long been criticized for not distancing itself enough from the PKK, but is separate. It has been widely claimed that Erdogan is hoping to regain, in an early election, some of the seats in Parliament that the right-wing MHP managed to receive after a narrow margin of victory in some Central and Eastern Anatolian provinces in the June election. In these provinces, the MHP won some 20 seats that it could have lost to the AK Party if the MHP had gotten some 5,000 to 10,000 votes less depending on the province. The HDP, which for the first time took part in an election as a party rather than through independent candidates, won 80 seats in Parliament with 13 percent of the vote. The AK Party currently has 258 deputies but 276 seats, representing an absolute majority in the 550-seat Parliament, are required to form a government. MHP leader Devlet Bahceli has also joined the choir by calling on the prosecutor's office of the Supreme Court of Appeals to take legal action against the HDP, urging for the closure of the party. In a statement released on Sunday, Bahceli, who criticized the HDP and the government over the recent PKK terrorist attacks, said: "The Supreme Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor's Office should immediately intervene and take action against the politicians of Kandil who praise terrorists, abstain from condemning those who shed the blood of our martyrs and fail to distance themselves from terrorism." Many earlier pro-Kurdish parties, the HDP's predecessors, were closed down over trumped up reasons, using the power structure of the state to keep Kurds in second class status, fueling the calls by fair-minded people for social justice for Turkish minority communities. http://ift.tt/1D7uxCz http://ift.tt/1HWVFDw http://ift.tt/1ImU7j3 http://ift.tt/1JHZuu4 http://ift.tt/1HWVCYd http://ift.tt/1D7uyqe http://ift.tt/1HWVCYe http://ift.tt/1D7uxCC http://ift.tt/1HWVCYg http://ift.tt/1CZwTDZ ----- Exceptional statements: All Turkish people who are against war, should raise their voice. It's Erdogan's personal war for more power! Erdogan wants to have & win new elections & is sacrificing Turkish soldiers for votes. It's that simple. There's no war on ISIS. Ask Turkey what happened to this ISIS fighter who was 'arrested'... NATO wasn't created to keep Erdogan's seat. Kurds are NATO's allies. All the operations we have witnessed in the previous days have been ordered by the President's Palace. Erdogan seems determined to pave the way 4 new election, to discredit Demirtas & to force tactical votes to flee HDP Erdogan is stoking conflict w/ Kurds to try and make it impossible for HDP to be in the gov. Erdogan's aim is not to have a 'sustainable' war against IS, but corner his political opponents, the HDP! HDP took many Kurdish Sunni votes from AKP, so AKP has deceptively fought to establish the "HDP is PKK, PKK are terrorists" narrative. When Turkish state and PKK again go after each other, both will be weakened. Biggest winner in that scenario: IS and MB. Main loser: HDP and Peace. This is Erdogan seeking revenge for HDP victory at Turkish election & YPG's defeat of ISIS in Rojava. If PKK pursues a full confrontation against AKP, it will kill the HDP, which won a substantial support The AKP is aiming to come to power alone by intimidating the people. See also: http://ift.tt/1HWVCYh ---- BTW - this is not about the PKK. This is about the AKP and its bullshit.

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