The main theme of the rallies will be “Experience and Keep Alive a 1,000-year-old Brotherhood.” MHP supporters will convene in Ankara’s Tandoğan Square on Dec. 13 and voice their opposition to the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) plans to solve the Kurdish issue with a democratization package.
The AK Party announced its ambition to settle the Kurdish question without resorting to military means and in a peaceful manner in the summer months. The party has not announced the full context of its democratization package yet, but it is believed that the government will grant broader cultural and political rights to the country’s Kurds to thaw the ice between the state and Kurdish citizens in Turkey. However, two opposition parties -- the MHP and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) -- have reiterated their opposition to the initiative since it was first announced.
The MHP’s anti-Kurdish initiative rally will be the party’s greatest rally in Ankara since 2005. The party was planning to hold its rally in a Mediterranean city, but the prospect of the emergence of any acts of provocation discouraged the MHP to do so. The nationalist party will emphasize during its Ankara rally that the Kurdish initiative is aimed at destroying the national unity of the country and damaging its unitary structure.
