05/06/2023 | Writer: Selma Koçak
HDP Honorary President Ertuğrul Kürkçü criticized silence of his party against anti-LGBTI+ election campaign of People’s Alliance:
“Defending LGBTIQ rights is legally compulsory by politically forbidden in our party. Is that even possible? If our party prefers to remain silent against oppression, the oppressed ones will surely send us to Coventry.”
Opposition parties are yet to calm down since the elections. The probability of dissolution in Nation Alliance and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s resignation discussed on media by leaking from lobbies, have come to the fore. On the other side a “criticism – self-criticism process” is being carried out in People’s Democratic Party (HDP), which entered the May 14th election under the lists of Green Left Party.
Following HDP’s imprisoned former Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş’s evaluations in an interview with İrfan Aktan on Artı Gerçek and his announcement that he abandoned active politics, some other reactions have started to rise from HDP.
HDP executives announced that they would carry out public meetings and then they would hold a party conference within the context of their press conferences. However senior executives have yet to make a statement on the missteps taken during the election process.
HDP Honorary President Ertuğrul Kürkçü, who was the guest of Odak Ankara (Focus Ankara) broadcast hosted by Yıldız Tar on ARTI TV in order to evaluate the agenda, expressed his opinions to contribute the process. Answering Tar’s questions, Kürkçü criticized the fact that almost none of the HDP and Green Left Party executives were able to develop a discourse on LGBTI+ rights which take place on their party program.
Kürkçü told that HDP made a mistake by staying quiet on the topic against People’s Alliance’s anti-LGBTI+ election campaign and continued as follows:
“Let’s be honest! Defending LGBTIQ rights is a legal obligation but a political prohibition in our party. Is that even possible? If our party prefers to remain silent against the discrimination of people, who make up 7 percent of the population, on the basis of their gender and sexual orientation, the oppressed ones will surely send us to Coventry.”
Tags: human rights
