Ankara-Sana
The head of the Turkish Peoples' Democratic Party, Salahaddin Demirtaş, confirmed that the repressive mentality of the President of the Turkish regime, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is pushing him to pursue his party illegally through invalid ban measures to ensure its victory in the upcoming elections.
"The main reason that pushes them to try to dissolve the HDP is to make room for the victory of the People's Alliance in the next elections scheduled for 2023," Demirtaş said in written answers to questions to AFP from his prison in Edirne in northwestern Turkey, stressing that this reason alone is sufficient to make The case against his party is "illegal and illegitimate."
Demirtaş expressed his hope that the Constitutional Court would not grant legitimacy to this irrational behavior and reject the case, denying all the charges against his party.
When asked about his political future, Demirtaş said that he is “banned from political work de facto because of his arrest,” stressing that he will continue “fighting” with the people side by side.
It is noteworthy that the People's Alliance includes the ruling Justice and Development Party and its partner, the Nationalist Movement Party, which has declining support according to most opinion polls.
It is noteworthy that Erdogan's regime has transformed Turkey into a police state in which it controls the judiciary and police sectors and runs them in a way that serves its interests and its repressive policies that have been entrenched since the attempted coup against him in 2016 with the prosecution of his opponents and opponents and launched campaigns of arrest and dismissals, as well as against the media and the press for the same pretext, including the arrest. Demirtaş on November 6, 2016.