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Boycott pressure
3 September 2010 / TAHA AKYOL MILLIYET,
How will Diyarbakır welcome Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan today? I find this question very significant. There is a more important issue in question than who Erdoğan is: To what extent will people living in the Southeast voluntarily join the PKK’s boycott of the referendum?
To what extent will they bow to terrorism and social pressure? To what extent will they act of their own free will, greet Erdoğan and go to the ballot box on Sept. 12? The answer to whether the Kurdish problem will be resolved through democratic means lies in these questions. Since I see the issue from this perspective, I hope Erdoğan’s visit to Diyarbakır will be successful. What do the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) grass roots say? Democracies allow boycotts. The problem here is that the decision to boycott the referendum was not made by a party that is loyal to democracy but by an armed organization that makes use of totalitarian methods.
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