Selahattin Demirtaş issues 'nullity' warning to Erdoğan in article titled 'It's Almost Time': By not giving credit to those who hope for favors

In an article he penned regarding the 'Terror-Free Turkey' process, Selahattin Demirtaş also touched upon the decision of absolute nullity, stating, "If the President is to open the door to principled, moral, and fair compromises, he must put an end to everything that has happened and offer an opportunity for new beginnings by not giving credit to those who hope for favors from nullity, trustees, and imprisonments."

The highlights of the article, published on the website Barış Meydanı, are as follows:

Along with the crises occurring at a global level that are inherent to the nature of capitalism and imperialism, a great war of hegemony is destroying everything that belongs to the past both in the Middle East and in Turkey, but as Gramsci put it, "The old world is dying, the new world is struggling to be born, and now is the time of monsters." Because the balance of power resembles neither the bipolar world of the Cold War era nor the post-Cold War period when the unipolar US/Western hegemony called the shots. Perhaps we will experience a long period in which no power can establish dominance alone or as a bloc, and even if it does, it will not be sustainable, where fluidity is constant and variability is essential. In other words, it seems that this war of hegemony will not end in a short time with any global or regional power establishing dominance. This continuity of a state of war will now be the new normal for the coming decades.

Naturally, Turkey is also among the countries directly affected by this change. However, this time, Turkey stands out as a country that has increased its capacity to influence, manage, and benefit from this change. The ongoing resolution process is also an important tactic that emerged as a result of this approach and whose contribution to the main strategy is clearly evident. I say "tactic" because when looking at what has been done, what has not been done, and what will be done regarding the approach to the process, it can easily be seen that it is not being handled strategically on the state side. For the state, the main strategy is to ensure that Turkey emerges stronger from the storm of global and regional change. It is normal and internally consistent for the Turkish state mind to work in this way.

Especially in Syria and Iraq, a new approach that is more embracing regarding relations with the Kurds and that respects the rights and laws of the Kurds there will benefit everyone more.

"AN OUTDATED, HUMILIATING APPROACH"

The Republic of Turkey managed to stay away from the hurricane of war and destruction in recent years thanks to the process, which is our greatest achievement; therefore, it would be unfair to ignore this or not value it. But in the same process, for example, a Kurdish mother could not speak Kurdish in a Parliamentary Commission, and a Kurdish journalist was not allowed into Parliament with a bag that had Kurdish writing on it. They were hurt, they were belittled. A significant part of the Kurdish issue is already the mother tongue, identity. While we are striving to build a beautiful future together, is this outdated, humiliating approach what we deserve?

"IF BAHÇELİ HAD KNOWN..."

I am sure and I wish that if Mr. Devlet Bahçeli had known, he would have gone to the entrance of Parliament himself, taken the bag with the writing in the mother tongue of his thousand-year-old brothers, and held the Kurdish journalist's hand, saying, "Come, my brother, this is your parliament. No one can block, belittle, or ban your mother tongue. Because I cannot exist without you, and you cannot exist without me. From now on, we will also take legal measures and protect the Kurdish language as much as our own mother tongue. We have buried the old mentalities; we will walk together, hand in hand, heart to heart, with a new spirit of brotherhood." And I am sure that many, many things would change at once, and many unnecessary taboos and fears would be destroyed and shattered. It is not too late for this. In other words, what I am saying is that the process now requires and necessitates concrete, tangible, and visible steps. And these steps are not concessions or anything of the sort; they are steps that are as rightful and lawful as mother's milk for our common life.

"THE HYPOCRITES HAVE BEGUN TO GATHER AROUND HIM MORE"

If those who can correctly perceive and analyze the radical process of change we are going through can display a moral and courageous stance and open the door to a great compromise in Turkey, then the gains will be fifty or a hundred, not ten. But if it is said, "Let it be small, but let it be mine," even ten might not be gained, and one might have to settle for that. What will be decisive here will be the President's attitude and decisions from now on. He is also very clearly aware that opportunists preparing to loot the spoils from a possible wreckage, clowns turning somersaults in pursuit of rent, and hypocrites who know no bounds in sycophancy have begun to gather around him more and more. If the President is to open the door to principled, moral, and fair compromises, he must put an end to everything that has happened and offer an opportunity for new beginnings by not giving credit to those who hope for favors from nullity, trustees, and imprisonments.

CALL FOR A NEW POLITICAL GROUND

It would be in everyone's interest for all political leaders, including the New Path Group, especially the President, Mr. Bahçeli, and Mr. Özel, to push for a much broader, much more inclusive, and much more rewarding ground for cooperation. It is time to establish a new political ground by taking mutual positive steps that will end extraordinary practices and unusual tensions. Fierce political competition and democratic rivalry will of course exist, it is essential, but first let us fix and strengthen the field and the ground together. Then, everything from a new social contract to democracy reforms, from new political alliances to struggles for unity, can be discussed, agreed upon, and resolved much more easily. If no one is willing or dares to do this, there is no need for despair; we are here, we are the solution. How will we do it? We will do it together by speaking with courage and breaking the molds, don't worry. It's almost time for that too.