KurdistanObserver.com
DTP Leader Calls Kurdish Leaders to Unite
for Elections
The New Anatolian / Ankara
April 2, 2007
Kurdish politicians standing at different
points of political spectrum gathered in Ankara over the weekend where
Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk called upon Kurdish political
leaders to make a pre-election alliance to enter Parliament stepping over the
crushing 10 percent national election threshold.
Leaders of the Party for Rights and Freedoms (HAK-PAR) and the Participatory
Democracy Party (KADEP) were also among the attendants at the dinner meeting
organized by the Ankara Kurdish Culture Solidarity and Mutual-Aid Association
(Kurd-Der).
Turk claimed that if Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani,
president of Iraq's regional Kurdish administration have failed to come to terms
with each other facing the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Iraqi Kurds wouldn't be at
this point now.
Delivering his speech in Kurdish, KADEP honorary leader Serafettin Elci stated
that the political principles of a 800-year-dream of Kurds' coming together is
forming.
While Kurd-Der Head Ihsan Guler referred Abdullah Ocalan as "Mr.," singers
taking floor sang folk songs praising Ocalan.
