Glance behind the „democratic“ curtain of the AKP
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This short overview is already enough in order to get a realistic picture of the idea of democracy of the Turkish bourgeois state and its AKP government. The "efforts of democracy" undertaken by the AKP are serving the one and only aim, which is to extend their sphere of influence.

 

1 November 2010 / International Bulletin / No 99  

The AKP government is still trying to present itself as democratic and reform oriented, before the own people as well as before the peoples of the Middle East and worldwide public opinion. The "Kurdish Initiative" and the change of the constitution via the referendum on September 12 are together with the talks about independence of judiciary, freedom of press and asking account from the putschists part of these efforts. However, a glance at the reality of Turkey shows quickly, that these lip services of the AKP did not result in a democratisation or an increase of rights and freedoms for the labourers and the Kurdish people.
Assassinations in the street in cooperation of civil fascists and the police, like the murder of the Kurdish student Serzan Kurt, who did through police bullets in Mugla, are still on the agenda. Many young soldiers doing their military service are dying under strange circumstances in the barracks; according to the official reports they "fell down accidentally from the bed" or "shot themselves in the back". These incidents are showing with all clearness the conditions still being dominant within the army.
In the prisons violations of human rights and torture are continuing, for instance in the case of Ender Bulhaz Akturk, who was exposed to water boarding, applied also in Guantanamo, next to many other forms of torture under detention. Although death penalty has been abolished officially, the way of treatment of ill prisoners finally has the same result. Through denial of medical treatment and the necessary release confirmed by doctors, deathly ill prisoners are not released but deliberately exposed to death in the cells.
Regarding freedom of press; Turkey is one of the countries with the highest number of detained journalists. According to a list presented in 2009 by Reporters Without Borders about freedom of press in the world, Turkey ranks on place 122 of 175 countries, thus 20 ranks behind compared to the previous year. According to the deputy of the BDP Akin Birdal, only in 2009 10 newspapers have been banned 27 times, 7 magazines 15 times and the broadcast of a television channel stopped two times. The offices of 16 press organs have been raided only this year and according to the news agency Firat News more than 7000 websites are banned in Turkey. This is the realty hidden against the "democratic measure" of the AKP government.
The political repression, first of all against the Kurdish people, also continues in the old tradition of denial and annihilation. On October 18, an obvious political trial started in Amed against 152 Kurdish politicians and human rights defenders. It is the much known old story: who supports the freedom and the rights of the Kurdish people is confronted with the accusation of terrorism and alleged of support/membership of the PKK . The so called " KCK Trial" is no exception. However, the representatives of the Kurdish people are sticking to their just demands despite the presumptuous accusations; among their demands is also the right to use their Kurdish mother tongue. Despite the fact that the court is denying them this right officially, the 152 defendants, for whom the attorney is demanding a prison penalty of more than 5000 years in total, are responding to the questions of the court in Kurdish. This example is showing once again the mentality of the Turkish bourgeois state; Kurdish is only allowed in the state television channel, but nowhere else in society.
The Kurdish people and its political representatives have made peace offers again and again, however the hand offered in brotherhood always remained in the air. This happened again when on October 19, 2009 a peace group of 34 persons from Kandil and Maxmur came to Turkey following a call made by Abdullah Ocalan. Meanwhile the Kurdish people received them enthusiastically at the border in numbers of hundreds of thousands; the colonialist fascist regime detained the messengers of peace, whose trial is still continuing. The demand of prison penalties of 15 years is the answer to this peace offer.
Apart from the political oppression also the dirty war continues in Kurdistan. The HPG published a balance of war for October 2010: despite a ceasefire announced by the guerrilla, the Turkish army carried out 32 operations and 30 attacks with heavy weapons within only one single month. Since the beginning of the ceasefire on August 13 until October 31, the colonialist fascist army of Turkey carried out 82 ground operations, 128 attacks with heavy weapons and assassinated 29 guerrilla fighters. Instead of taking seriously into account the democratic and national demands of the Kurdish liberation struggle, they increase the measures of repression. Only in the period from August 13 to September 30, the police detained at least 610 persons at house raids and this trend still continues today. Despite the prolongation of the ceasefire by the PKK until the elections in 2011 and after the announcement of this decision, many villages in Northern and Southern Kurdistan have been bombed from the air and the operations are continuing on the ground and in the air, targeting also the civilian population.
This short overview is already enough in order to get a realistic picture of the idea of democracy of the Turkish bourgeois state and its AKP government. The "efforts of democracy" undertaken by the AKP are serving the one and only aim, which is to extend their sphere of influence. It is a power struggle within the bourgeoisie, in which the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan have nothing to win. The lie of democracy and the real situation is becoming more obvious every day. The working class, the labouring masses, the Kurdish people and all the oppressed are recognizing the true face of the regime party AKP more clearly every day.
 

 

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This short overview is already enough in order to get a realistic picture of the idea of democracy of the Turkish bourgeois state and its AKP government. The "efforts of democracy" undertaken by the AKP are serving the one and only aim, which is to extend their sphere of influence.

 

1 November 2010 / International Bulletin / No 99  

The AKP government is still trying to present itself as democratic and reform oriented, before the own people as well as before the peoples of the Middle East and worldwide public opinion. The "Kurdish Initiative" and the change of the constitution via the referendum on September 12 are together with the talks about independence of judiciary, freedom of press and asking account from the putschists part of these efforts. However, a glance at the reality of Turkey shows quickly, that these lip services of the AKP did not result in a democratisation or an increase of rights and freedoms for the labourers and the Kurdish people.
Assassinations in the street in cooperation of civil fascists and the police, like the murder of the Kurdish student Serzan Kurt, who did through police bullets in Mugla, are still on the agenda. Many young soldiers doing their military service are dying under strange circumstances in the barracks; according to the official reports they "fell down accidentally from the bed" or "shot themselves in the back". These incidents are showing with all clearness the conditions still being dominant within the army.
In the prisons violations of human rights and torture are continuing, for instance in the case of Ender Bulhaz Akturk, who was exposed to water boarding, applied also in Guantanamo, next to many other forms of torture under detention. Although death penalty has been abolished officially, the way of treatment of ill prisoners finally has the same result. Through denial of medical treatment and the necessary release confirmed by doctors, deathly ill prisoners are not released but deliberately exposed to death in the cells.
Regarding freedom of press; Turkey is one of the countries with the highest number of detained journalists. According to a list presented in 2009 by Reporters Without Borders about freedom of press in the world, Turkey ranks on place 122 of 175 countries, thus 20 ranks behind compared to the previous year. According to the deputy of the BDP Akin Birdal, only in 2009 10 newspapers have been banned 27 times, 7 magazines 15 times and the broadcast of a television channel stopped two times. The offices of 16 press organs have been raided only this year and according to the news agency Firat News more than 7000 websites are banned in Turkey. This is the realty hidden against the "democratic measure" of the AKP government.
The political repression, first of all against the Kurdish people, also continues in the old tradition of denial and annihilation. On October 18, an obvious political trial started in Amed against 152 Kurdish politicians and human rights defenders. It is the much known old story: who supports the freedom and the rights of the Kurdish people is confronted with the accusation of terrorism and alleged of support/membership of the PKK . The so called " KCK Trial" is no exception. However, the representatives of the Kurdish people are sticking to their just demands despite the presumptuous accusations; among their demands is also the right to use their Kurdish mother tongue. Despite the fact that the court is denying them this right officially, the 152 defendants, for whom the attorney is demanding a prison penalty of more than 5000 years in total, are responding to the questions of the court in Kurdish. This example is showing once again the mentality of the Turkish bourgeois state; Kurdish is only allowed in the state television channel, but nowhere else in society.
The Kurdish people and its political representatives have made peace offers again and again, however the hand offered in brotherhood always remained in the air. This happened again when on October 19, 2009 a peace group of 34 persons from Kandil and Maxmur came to Turkey following a call made by Abdullah Ocalan. Meanwhile the Kurdish people received them enthusiastically at the border in numbers of hundreds of thousands; the colonialist fascist regime detained the messengers of peace, whose trial is still continuing. The demand of prison penalties of 15 years is the answer to this peace offer.
Apart from the political oppression also the dirty war continues in Kurdistan. The HPG published a balance of war for October 2010: despite a ceasefire announced by the guerrilla, the Turkish army carried out 32 operations and 30 attacks with heavy weapons within only one single month. Since the beginning of the ceasefire on August 13 until October 31, the colonialist fascist army of Turkey carried out 82 ground operations, 128 attacks with heavy weapons and assassinated 29 guerrilla fighters. Instead of taking seriously into account the democratic and national demands of the Kurdish liberation struggle, they increase the measures of repression. Only in the period from August 13 to September 30, the police detained at least 610 persons at house raids and this trend still continues today. Despite the prolongation of the ceasefire by the PKK until the elections in 2011 and after the announcement of this decision, many villages in Northern and Southern Kurdistan have been bombed from the air and the operations are continuing on the ground and in the air, targeting also the civilian population.
This short overview is already enough in order to get a realistic picture of the idea of democracy of the Turkish bourgeois state and its AKP government. The "efforts of democracy" undertaken by the AKP are serving the one and only aim, which is to extend their sphere of influence. It is a power struggle within the bourgeoisie, in which the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan have nothing to win. The lie of democracy and the real situation is becoming more obvious every day. The working class, the labouring masses, the Kurdish people and all the oppressed are recognizing the true face of the regime party AKP more clearly every day.