News:

During the tree planting activity in the Yukarıtütek village near Diyadin district of Ağrı that was to be held today; the PKK forces opened fire on the soldiers present for ensuring security. During the first firing four soldiers were wounded and five PKK militants were killed. (All news agencies 11/04/2015)

Comment:

The reflections of this attack on 11th of April are heatedly continuing until the moment. President Erdogan as well as the government have accused the HDP (People’s Democracy Party) of sabotaging the resolution process in a heavy manner. In return, HDP co-Chairman Selahattin Demirtaş criticized the government on this issue and said the following, “There was not a clash in Ağrı yesterday, it was a faked fictive operation, with a scenario that had been pre-planned and rehearsed beforehand, and they tried to cause as much deaths as possible.” In response to these statements by Demirtaş, Prime Minister Davutoğlu said that “Mister Demirtaş is lying and bending the truth. Is he the chairman of a legal party or is he the advocate of terror aiming at legitimizing such terroristic acts of separatist terror elements who seek to divert the people through pressure? This is the day where everybody should lay out his attitude openly.”

Criticisms continue in this manner. After these events, this is what is talked in the public: PKK is pressuring the people by gun force in order to make the HDP to pass the election threshold, while the HDP wing accuses the government by stating that this was a fictional pre-planned operation against the PKK in order to keep the HDP below the election threshold, while at the same time both the Government and the HDP accuse each other of impeding the ongoing resolution process. In the light of all these, it is possible to state the following:

The occurrence of such incidents prior to the upcoming June 7 General Elections is quite normal. The AKP is quite nervous in face of the increasing HDP and MHP votes. Because the AKP needs to achieve at least 335 or 367 representatives in order to change the constitution alone and bring the Presidential system desired by Erdogan. Therefore, it is possible that it sought to condone such actions through controlled provocation or to exploit such incidents in order to reduce the HDP’s votes. On the other side, if the HDP who will join the elections as a party for the first time passes the 10% electoral threshold and enters the Parliament, the AKP’s plans will be interrupted substantially. Furthermore if the MHP can manage to increase its votes by a few points, than it might become difficult for the AKP to come to power alone. Therefore, the Government might have wanted to lower the HDP’s votes in particular in the Western provinces by blaming the HDP in the public with being responsible for this incident and cooperating with the PKK. HDP co-Chairman Demirtaş already wanted to draw attention to this plan. Or as a possibility; the British might have produced such a provocative action in order to create mistrust against the AKP amongst the public before the upcoming elections. Because if the AKP reaches the vast majority to change the constitution for the presidential system, the British penetration in Turkey would be hit completely or at a large proportion. Therefore the British might trump all of their cards to the field prior to the elections. Indeed, such was the British’s pawn’s, the communist DHKP-C organisation’s killing of a prosecutor in the Istanbul court house, as well as the armed attack of the same organization on the police headquarters in Istanbul. Therefore, it is not surprising that this Ummah’s sons are being murdered or subjected to persecution for the colonial kuffar’s plans. This capitalist system and its governments with their politics of satisfying their masters have failed to protect the lives and property of this Ummah.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Yilmaz Çelik