Initial
results from Sunday’s election reveal the Peoples’ Democratic party will take
80 of 550 seats
The Guardian, Reuters in Diyarbakir, Sunday 7 June
A man waves the Kurdish flag to celebrate election results of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’s Democracy party in Diyarbakir. Photograph: Emre Tazegul/AP |
Thousands
of jubilant Kurds flooded the streets of Diyarbakir, south east Turkey,on
Sunday, setting off fireworks and waving flags as the pro-Kurdish opposition
looked likely to enter parliament as a party for the first time.
The
Peoples’ Democratic party (HDP) said initial results from Sunday’s election
showed it would take 80 of 550 seats, a stunning result for a party that
pollsters had said would struggle to cross the required 10% threshold.
It also
marks a major setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who had hoped for a
crushing victory for the AK party he founded, allowing it to change the
constitution and give him broad executive powers.
Supporters of the HDP celebrate after initial results of the Turkish parliamentary elections. Photograph: Sedat Suna/EPA |
Erdogan had
repeatedly lashed out at the HDP and its charismatic leader Selahattin Demirtaş
before the elections.
“This
result shows that this country has had enough. Enough of Erdoğan and his
anger,” said Seyran Demir, a 47-year-old housewife who was among the thousands
who gathered in the streets around the HDP’s provincial headquarters. “I am so
full of joy that I can’t speak properly.”
The crowds
brought traffic to a standstill in parts of the city. Elsewhere, people drove
through sidestreets hanging out of car windows and waving HDP flags. Men fired
pistols into the air, a traditional sign of celebration.
Just two
days earlier, bombs tore through a HDP rally in Diyarbakir, killing two and
wounding at least 200.
The HDP had
looked to reach beyond Turkey’s roughly 20% Kurdish population, attempting to
woo centre-left and secular voters disillusioned with Erdoğan.
“The reason
the HDP has won this many votes is because it has not excluded any members of
this country, unlike our current rulers,” said 25-year-old Siar Senci. “It has
embraced all languages, all ethnicities and members of all faiths and promised
them freedom.”
The HDP’s
entrance into parliament as a party – previously candidates ran as independents
to skirt the 10% threshold – could also herald a step forward for the Kurdish
peace process.
People celebrate election results of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’s Democracy party. Photograph: Emre Tazegul/AP |
Ankara
launched peace talks with the militant Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) two years
ago. The PKK took up arms in 1984 in an insurgency for greater autonomy that
has killed 40,000 people.
“We have
waited for this day for years. During those dark times, I wondered if I could
see Turks and Kurds living in solidarity in my own lifetime. Thank God it
happened,” said 63-year-old Ersin Ates.
“Now we
don’t want another single bullet to be shot. Our fight will continue in the
parliament.”
Record number of women elected to Turkish parliament
"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)
Leyla Zana
was the first Kurdish woman elected to Turkey’s
parliament, in 1991. Photograph:
Tarik Tinazay/AFP/Getty Images
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