Ruling AKP stages a systematic coup against society, says HDP

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The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has released a written statement about the detention of its members and executives in Turkey's southeastern provinces of Antep and Diyarbakır earlier today (July 14).

The HDP statement has indicated that over 50 people, including HDP Antep Provincial Co-Chair Musa Aydın, HDP members and executives, Free Women Movement (TJA) Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan, journalists and women's rights activists, have been detained as part of these operations.

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The statement of the party has underlined that the attack targeting the HDP have become systematic, defining the attacks as a "political genocide."

"The acts of the government which is carrying out all types of attacks against the will of the society cannot possibly be defined by the law or procedures of detention," the HDP has said in its statements, noting that "these acts have also gone beyond the attacks launched by the Nazi regime against the Jews, socialists and other dissidents."

The party has indicated that "what is done is a systematic attack of 'political genocide' against certain segments of the society."

'Putschist practices'

The statement has also reminded the public that HDP's Diyadin District Co-Mayor Betül Yaşar has been in detention since yesterday.

Contending that "putschist practices and tortures" of the previous periods now "continue with tortures with dogs," the HDP has said, "On every opportunity, this government shows how much it is afraid of women's will, their pursuit of freedom and power to bring about change."

The statement of the party has also read, "Usurping the will of the people by appointing trustees to municipalities, rendering the Parliament's will meaningless by stripping lawmakers of MP duties, breaking into the houses of everyone who demands freedom, democracy and rights, torturing them and carrying out systematic attacks against women, this government is an enemy of the people, it is an enemy of the woman, just as it is an enemy of rights, law, justice, democracy and freedom."

'Not a German model, but a Nazi model'

Arguing that the government "says 'I am working on a German model' to legitimize its attacks against the society," the HDP has said:

"The reference point of the government is not the 'German Model', but the 'Nazi Model.' The reason behind these increasing attacks of the AKP is that it is now overwhelmed with a fear of losing. This government is now heading for the last roundup, it has lost its legitimacy and, for that reason, it has gradually turned into a government of crime against social values."

Concluding its remarks, the party has noted that "what it has been doing is, in fact, the beginning of the end for the government." (TP/SD)