We have witnessed the nationalists' enmity toward the HDP grow every day. They have even called on the Constitutional Court to close down the pro-Kurdish party. It is obvious that they do not want to discuss any aspect of the Kurdish question; they want to identify the HDP with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is a great injustice to the pro-Kurdish party.
I personally do not like to see a political party, which has a key position in Parliament, use all of its energy to attack another opposition party.
Obviously, they will not have anything positive to say about the Kurdish question, about the EU, or about minorities, etc. These are all problematic issues for the party and their electorate. However, some of their latest discourse resembles hate speech and has started to adopt quite a threatening tone.
As Today's Zaman reported yesterday, Devlet Bahçeli, the chairperson of the MHP, even uttered these words quite recently: “Those pathetic people who relax in their summer homes in İzmir or Marmaris, who refused to vote for the MHP to counter the [ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party)] but who instead have opened up the way for the HDP to enter Parliament, those without honor who live in Bosporus mansions, who sip their whisky and who voted for the HDP… You all can go and form a coalition with the HDP.”
As if this was not enough, one of Bahçeli's consultants said on a TV program that the party “has a list of 3,000 of these people without honor,” in an obvious threat to intellectuals, opinion makers and the like.
A political party has criminalized, stigmatized and demonized another party and those who support them. Do not forget that HDP headquarters and election campaign offices were attacked perhaps 200 times by those who used a hand gesture symbolizing a wolf's head to symbolize affiliation with the MHP. Their most recent words have the potential to provoke new attacks on the HDP and its supporters.
I have read in news reports that a group of human rights advocates have brought a complaint before prosecutors, saying that the MHP's words targeting the HDP constitute hate speech and incite people to hatred.
We know that cases have been brought against Selahattin Demirtaş after he was targeted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who claimed that Demirtaş's statements had played a role in inciting violence during the Kobani protests.
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A majority of Turks see Erdogan as the biggest obstacle to a coalition deal while almost two thirds see recent military action as part of an attempt to achieve different results at an early election, a poll by research company Gezici showed on Tuesday.
The survey showed 56.8 percent of those asked saw Erdogan as the main block in coalition negotiations. A quarter blamed the opposition for the lack of progress, while less than 20 percent saw Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as responsible.
If the June 7 vote were to be re-run this Sunday, little would change, the poll suggested. The AKP would still be unable to govern alone while the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose strong performance cost the AKP its majority, would stay in parliament.
The poll of 4,860 people, taken on July 25-26, put the AKP on 41.9 percent, up slightly from 40.9 percent in June. The main opposition CHP, which has been in coalition talks with the AKP, saw its support rise just over a percentage point to 26.3.
The MHP lost one percent to 15.3 percent, while the pro-Kurdish HDP slipped to 12.3 percent from 13.1.
The AKP held a final day of exploratory coalition talks with the CHP on Monday, but there were few signs of concrete progress.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc described the talks as "positive" but said the ball was now in CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu's court.
"If the day come when Kilicdaroglu says 'sorry, but we will not form a government [with you],' then we will alter our course to the MHP. I believe we can form a government [with the MHP] if we can reach a common understanding," Arinc told reporters.
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