Demirtaş: Ala Should Know His Place

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has responded to Minister of Interior Affairs Efkan Ala naming the march call to Sur a “provocation”.

According to the report of Dicle News Agency (DİHA), Demirtaş has noted:

“Minister of Interior Affairs should know his place. If he thinks that he can make us take a step back by shaking his finger at us, he is wrong. We fear no one but God. And who fears this fascism is honorless and flagrant. If someone causes damages during the march, then this person is a provocator. And our people should avoid such people”.

Minister of Interior Affairs Efkan Ala had earlier said; “Whoever provocates is liable for the consequences. And our call to our people is that they should no way give credit to such provocations. We take every legal step to provide for their peace and safety. In the next days. we hopefully will establish an environment of peace and introduce it to them”.

Call for march to Sur

On the joint press conference on February 29, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Kamuran Yüksek, Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chairs Hatip Dicle and Selma Irmak had called for a march to Sur district to protest against the curfew in Sur which had been in effect for approximately three months.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş had noted; “Everybody should march to Sur at 4 p.m. on Wednesday (March 2) until barricades are removed and the bans are lifted in Sur.

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecution Bureau of Anti-Terror Crime Investigation, has launched probe into Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Kamuran Yüksek over “calling people to take it to the street” in their press meeting yesterday (March 1). (BK/DG)