Radikal daily, June 10, 2012 Büşra Ersanlı
From the very first moment I was taken into custody on October 28, 2011, I knew that the real accusation against me was my membership in the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Assembly and the party activities carried out during the time spared from my full-time work at the university. As the participation of BDP’s women in politics and their success in local governments increasingly grew, the ‘anger’ that this situation gave rise to struck back in the form of defamation against me.
The main idea concerning my person in Folder 50 of the so-called “KCK” indictment and case file is allegedly my carrying out – as a “leading figure” – PKK instructions, as well as those of Abdullah Öcalan cited in his interview notes, and my “great efforts” in this regard. In fact, we need to think of this as BDP instead of PKK, because there is no evidence of my PKK membership/leadership. In any case, such evidence would be impossible to find. The notes I have taken in dozens and hundreds of meetings (academy and party are not even of equal weight here, since the academic field covers a great part of my life) have been reshuffled to put forward ‘matchless’ opinions.
For example, the notes with regard to the Öcalan interviews, most of which I have not read and did not even receive at my internet address, have been listed one after the other as containing “proposals” concerning the new constitutional and democratisation reform process. Since I am also in the BDP Constitutional Commission for the drawing up of the new constitution, this would mean that I receive instructions. Therefore, if there is an interview of Öcalan in which he speaks about democracy, then I and all of us will have to fervently defend an organic and totalitarian police state in order to get out of prison…