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The Grand Turk
Demirtas: HDP vows to restrict power of president to symbolic levels
2015-10-04
[Hurriyet Daily News] Launching its snap election manifesto, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has pledged to restrict the power of the Turkish president to a "symbolic level," lifting the controversial discretionary fund recently granted to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's head of state.

The party would make legislative amendments to strengthen the separation of powers, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas said at the launch on Oct. 2.

The party unveiled its new slogan "With purpose, peace. With purpose, HDP," as Demirtas vowed that from now on the Kurdish movement would move forward with "politics and peace."

"I can only thank those who exerted positive efforts for the benefit of the people, and who placed stone after stone going forward. But from now on we'll go on our way with the HDP," he said, in an apparent reference to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

"Yes, the regime will change: We'll build a regime of justice. We must carry on the path with politics, with wisdom, and with peace. As [Mahatma] Gandhi said: Destroy injustice with justice and stand to applaud with bloodless hands," he added.

Demirtas also likened a Turkey without the HDP to a "ship drifting to dangerous waters."

"Today, if the ship is not sinking despite all attacks, this is thanks to the balance provided by the HDP," he stated.

The HDP co-chair again vowed to cross the 10 percent election threshold in the snap poll to be held Nov. 1.
"They said we would be below the threshold [in the last election in June]. But we'll bury the palace [presidency] under peace," Demirtas said.
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