100 lawyers representing DTP to file complaint against military plot

Türk’s remarks came on Tuesday during his party’s parliamentary group gathering. He said the lawyers would file the complaint with an İstanbul court today. The action plan was allegedly prepared upon the orders of then-Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Büyükanıt. It mentions the TSK’s unease regarding a Justice and Development Party (AK Party) victory at the polls. One of the chapters in the action plan was devoted to the entry of the pro-Kurdish DTP into Parliament. In the July 22 polls, the party sent 20 deputies to Parliament and formed a parliamentary group.

“The entry of the DTP into Parliament is a misfortune in the name of Turkish democracy. It has been understood from the very first day that the objective of those people, who call the members of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party [PKK] their brothers, is not to declare their ideas on a democratic platform but to quarrel with the state,” the plan argued.

Türk said Turkey’s recent political history was full of military coups, memorandums and action plans. “Unfortunately, civilians failed to stand up against the military’s position. We have two action plans at hand. One is targeting the AK Party and the other is targeting the DTP. The nation is questioning what is going on. Now the question is, will politicians give up their past habits and display a civilian stance against such plans?” the DTP leader asked.

He also directed accusations toward the governing AK Party for failing to finalize its Kurdish initiative, through which the government hopes to settle the problems faced by the country’s Kurds.

“We warned the government about its initiative and shared our views with the public. The Kurdish question is too complex to fit into political calculations. We see that the AK Party fails to understand this fact. Indeed, the AK Party cannot understand the Kurdish question. The party thought that it would be enough to say it was planning to stop the bloodshed. However, it failed to meet our people’s demands. Now the AK Party is trying to put the blame for its failure on the DTP,” Türk claimed.