Turkish Type Dictatorship and Islamic Terror
Turkey’s presidential elections are less than two months away. Shaken by the worst economic crisis in the country’s history, followed by the earthquakes in Southeast Turkey and Syria, which affected 3.5 million people and killed at least 350,000 people, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s dictatorship has allied itself with the political party of the fanatical Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah in order to protect its dwindling approval ratings and endangered seat.
After more than 20 years of de facto “one man” rule, the political Islamist Dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s seat is at risk in these elections. Having won the support of more than half of the people in previous presidential elections, the dictator is more frayed than ever before. The latest blow to the dictator’s regime was the earthquake disaster that hit 11 cities with 3.5 million people. The government’s inadequate response to the earthquake, the inability of government forces to reach the rubble in the first 48 hours, and the subsequent abandonment of the survivors to their fate, coupled with the ever-increasing high inflation and price hikes in the country and the continuous depreciation of the Turkish Lira, saw the Dictator Erdogan’s personal vote share drop to around 40% and the vote share of his political Islamist party AKP drop below 30%. Having failed to get enough votes to form a government on his own in the last general elections, and having been forced to form an alliance with the ultra-nationalist and racist MHP, Erdoğan has expanded the alliance in this election to include new partners. In addition to the BBP, another ultra-nationalist and racist party like the MHP, Dictator Erdoğan has formed coalitions with political figures such as Doğu Perinçek, a former Maoist Socialist, anti-NATO and anti-American, and Fatih Erbakan, an extreme Islamist, and his latest partner is HÜDAPAR, the political party of the fanatical Islamist armed terrorist organization Hezbollah.
HÜDAPAR, which is widely known to be the political extension of the fanatical Islamist armed terrorist organization Hezbollah (Allah’s Party), has announced that it will support President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Founded in 1984 in Batman, a province in Turkish Kurdistan, Hezbollah first began its armed struggle against the secular and leftist elements of the Kurdish political movement, primarily the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). Hezbollah began its unsolved murders in Kurdistan by kidnapping people it identified as “PKK supporters”. Between 1992 and 1995, a significant number of those abducted and disappeared in Kurdistan were clergymen. After a while, the PKK began to respond to these actions. The assassination of Mehmet Sincar, a Mardin deputy of the HEP, a legal political party in the Turkish parliament, in Batman on September 4, 1993 was also linked to Hezbollah. Hezbollah also killed many journalists. Hezbollah also killed Islamist writers, including Konca Kuriş, who criticized the organization’s violent actions. Hezbollah militants often chose to kidnap their targets first, rather than carry out armed attacks. In villages and urban centers in Batman and other provinces, earth shelters were created under houses. The abducted people were taken to these bunkers. The bunkers had specially prepared sections with chains. The abducted people were tied to these chains. They were never taken out for months. They were given only bread to eat once a day. The abductees were interrogated. During interrogation, their stories were recorded. These audio tapes would go all the way to the top according to the organization’s hierarchy. Accordingly, it would be decided what to do with that person. People who were interrogated often died as a result of severe torture. The “pig tie” method was one of them. Afterwards, graves were dug in the garden or another part of the house and those who had been tortured to death were buried there. On January 24, 2001, Diyarbakır Police Chief Gaffar Okkan’s office car was first thrown a grenade and then cross-fired by 18–19 people. Five police officers were killed along with Okkan. In 2012, a decision was taken to become a party and the Hür Dava Party, or HÜDA PAR, was founded. The party’s vote share in the last general elections in 2018 was 0.31 percent and it received 157,000 votes.
The party program of HÜDAPAR, which will enter the elections on the AKP list, includes the articles “Coeducation should be abandoned, adultery should be criminalized”.
Some of the items in the party program are as follows:
“Compulsory coeducation should be abandoned, and families who wish to do so should be able to send their children to boys’ or girls’ schools at all levels of education, including higher education. The law on the Prevention of Violence against Women should be canceled. Sexual intercourse outside marriage should be criminalized.”
