Maneuvers, passwords

A few days after the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahçeli, verbally appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Supreme Court to close the Kurdish-leaning Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), it became clear that if the necessary steps are not taken in accordance with the law regulating the activities of political parties, the MHP will use its legal authority to formally apply to the Prosecutor General's Office with this request.

It became known a few days ago that a small partner of the government has been collecting materials on this issue for a long time and is working on a complaint.

Although there are allegations that the MHP's initiative worries the AKP, the major power of the government, in fact, it is well known that this attempt could not have been made without the consent of the major power of the government.

There are several reasons for this, such as the fact that a significant proportion of Kurdish-origin voters prefer political preferences on an ethnic basis rather than a religious basis. In other words, the government's big partner sees that it is impossible to meet the 50% + 1 vote without the support of a significant number of Kurdish-origin voters.

The HDP, the last party in Kurdish-leaning politics, refuses to give this support. In this case, the big and small partners of the government claim that the HDP-oriented policy is, in fact, under the command of a terrorist organization and follows the instructions of that organization, and it is absolutely right, there is no need to follow Turkish policy to know this. Therefore, when no form of political cooperation takes place, the court is applied to throw the Peoples’ Democratic Party, no one doubts the existence of organic ties of which with the terrorist organization, out of the political arena.

As we have previously written, any influence on Kurdish-origin voters with the code of "Islamic brotherhood" password on voters is not enough to achieve the desired goal (it is not yet clear to what extent this will be possible), plans to create a new political body "under the control of the government" from the radical Kurdish nationalist wing are still hopeless. Therefore, there is no other way but to remove the most effective institution of Kurdish-oriented politics today from the parliament. It should be reminded that in the municipal elections held on March 31, 2019, the chairmen of all metropolitan and provincial municipalities won by the HDP in the south-eastern regions were dismissed on the grounds of "having organic ties with the terrorist organization."

It is the turn of the third party in parliament. This should be welcomed because there is no question of turning a blind eye to the situation in parliament when there are facts that the mayors of the same party have been dismissed from office "for having organic ties with a terrorist organization." At the same time, this situation has been going on for exactly 30 years, that is, the Kurdish-leaning politics has ignored countless warnings in the form of "keep your distance from the terrorist organization," despite the closure and reopening of about 10 parties over the past 30 years.

As a person who has been following Turkish politics for almost 30 years, it should not be surprising that I also took it normally. As criticism and controversy intensify in the political arena; on the one hand, goals and objectives become stronger, on the other hand, new questions arise. These processes around the HDP indicate that this time the scope of the case will be expanded and the elections will be held sooner or later with those passwords.

Recall that in the March 31, 2019, elections, and especially in the June 23 elections in Istanbul, some Kurdish-origin voters openly voted for the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) candidate. It can be assumed that in the next election, the government's campaign mechanism will be formed on the password "those who voted for us - those who voted for terrorists" and the CHP will be mounted on the opposite side of that polarization.

There is no need to be an astrologer to predict that the HDP will follow in the footsteps of Kurdish-leaning parties that previously operated under other names. In other words, until the Nationalist Movement Party appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Supreme Court to "close the HDP" this year, the HDP will try to dissolve itself and continue on the road with a new sign and change its form without changing its essence.

These attacks on the HDP and the maneuvers carried out on it allow us to assume that there will be no early elections this year.