GFTU BGCM Minutes 2017

put a lot of force to end the clash between PKK and the Turkish Government.

He prepared a road map and negotiations started in 2013 at Imrali Island.

There were representatives from AKP and from the State as well. It took two

years. After two years they have an agreement which is called the

Dolmabahce Agreement. There were ten articles in that agreement. If you

look at the ten articles you cannot see any words that mention about Kurds or

Kurdish or Kurdistan. All the ten articles are about Turkey’s democratisation, to

become a democratic country, to respect human rights, to make a constitution

where all differences can find themselves in that constitution.

But what happens? Mr. Erdoğan after a while said that he does not accept the

Dolmabahce Agreement, he does not care about it, there is no Kurdish

question and he ended the peace process. After that, war started again and it

has been continuing for two years. Mr. Öcalan, we have not heard from him since April 5 th 2015. Just once his brother went to island and had a meeting

with him, but after that we have not heard from him.

We have three elections in the past two years. I would like to mention about

HDP, about its background as well. HDP was the idea of Mr. Öcalan. If you

look at HDP you can find people from different backgrounds, from different

identities, from different religions which is a mirror of Turkey actually. We have

Armenian MPs, we have Azerbaijan MPs, Alevis MPs, we have Christian MPs

actually. HDP reflects the mirror of Turkey. It was Mr. Öcalan’s idea and his project. In the June 7 th election, MPs from the Kurdish community, they are

included in the election as independent. This was the first time as a party we

are involved in an election. Mr. Erdoğan tried to convince us, “Don’t get into

election as a party, you can have 20 MPs, and for you the peace process will

continue”. He said to us, “If you do such a thing, the peace process will continue”, but we did not accept it, we joined the election, June 7 th . There was

an election threshold, 10% was the threshold. It was brought by General Evren

in 1980 after the army coup. They changed the constitution in 1982 and they

put 10% election threshold, because of Kurds. They do not want the Kurds to

go to Parliament to represent in the Parliament. We passed the election

threshold with 80 MPs. It was the first time after 13 years Mr. Erdoğan could

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