Concerning the closure of DTP, the only Kurdish nationalist socialist party in Turkey

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:58 Written by Mehmet Ali ANIL Friday, 11 December 2009 22:35

This is directly copied from my journal in dA , I would be glad to take your ideas about the event from the comment section below: 

(I came into a conclusion that banishment of a major political party in Turkey would be an issue worth spreading word of, and would be a good reason to update an fossilized journal.) 

DTP (Demokratik Toplum Partisi, en : Democratic Society Party) is closed and its 35 party members are banned from politics for five years, with the final decision of the Constitutional Court. DTP, is dominantly Kurdish, and is the representative of Kurdish community and their will in the Turkish parliament. The party is found to be affiliated with PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, en: Kurdistan Workers Party), which is a guerrilla organization on Turkish-Iraqian border.

Sadly, the ongoing trend towards dialogue has came to a halt by this decision. DTP was one of the few success stories of Kurdish criticism to be implemented into a so-found-legal Turkish parliamentary system, incrementally getting attention and becoming a political force, getting the focal point from armed solutions, to itself; and was just becoming to be the one in the position of concern when Kurdish issues are to be addressed. Gathering more votes than former Kurdish parties from South Eastern region, people in the region had seen the glimpse of well settled and strong representation in the parliament.

By the time of its electoral success till its closure, DTP was a major figure of criticism in media and politics. Ultra-nationalist parties secured their state of both denial and annihilation of DTP authority, whereas elitist-leftist parties succeeded to be in favor of closure, because of its main source of trust while conserving the so-called secular state is the Turkish Army, which is fighting with PKK guerrillas indefinitely (yeah, very leftist indeed)

In short, today the Constitutional Court has undertaken revocation of a couple of million votes of Kurdish people. Many would call it to be an inevitable consequence of the attitude the party had towards PKK, whose blindfoldedness towards not-taken chances would be the reasons for prolonged and deepened indifference, othering and more armed conflicts.