An opposition newspaper in Turkey leaked information about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s meeting last week with Devlet Bahceli, head of the National Movement Party, and plans to get rid of a Kurdish opposition party as part of getting ready to introduce a new constitution.
The Cumhuriyet newspaper reported that Erdogan and Bahçeli talked about cutting off or stopping the state treasury’s financial support for political parties that are “linked to terrorism.” This was a reference to the HDP, which is mostly made up of Kurds and is accused by the ruling party and its national ally of having ties to the PKK. Peoples says the charge is false.
A newspaper report says that the leaders of the People’s Alliance (which is made up of the Justice and Development Party and the National Movement Party) said these things about the HDP and, in a roundabout way, the CHP, which is Turkey’s biggest opposition party.
Earlier, Erdogan said that he had talked with his friend Bahçeli about the election law and the law that allows people to donate to political parties. The Turkish opposition newspaper also said that Erdogan talked about Bahçeli’s repeated calls for the HDP to be shut down.
The newspaper also said that comments from the two leaders show that “the HDP will be the main policy stones” from now until 2023.
The newspaper wrote about what Erdogan said about “Janan Kvtenioglu,” the head of the Istanbul branch of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), and her involvement in the protests at Bosphorus University. On what Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said about CHP deputies attending the “burial ceremony for members of terrorist groups,” as the newspaper said that these comments could mean that the CHP does not get money from the state treasury.
The newspaper talked about changes to election rules that would make it illegal for politicians from different parties to run again in the elections if they break the law. They also said, “These legal changes could affect alliances in the 2023 elections.”
