Reminding that Semsûr is the hometown of Sırrı Süreyya Önder, a member of the İmralı Delegation, Bayındır said: "Sırrı Süreyya Önder, with his Turkmen identity, was the most important friend and tireless defender of the Kurdish people's struggle for peace and freedom. He symbolised the oppression and persecution of the Kurdish people not only through politics but also through his cinema and the films he made. We are establishing DBP here to end the suffering of our people, to bring peace, freedom and equality to these lands, and for the hope of living together to flourish."

 

Referring to the "Peace and Democratic Society Process", Bayindir said: "After the call of 27 February, we have entered a period that gives us all hope and excitement. as Kurds, Alevis, leftists, socialists, democratis, Muslims, those who have been persucuted and oppressed in these lands for 100 years, we will go through this process with trembling and we will organise more. We must recognise that the Kurdish issue is not just a Kurdistan or Turkey issue, but a regional and now a global problme, and therefore it involves serious difficulties. It is possible to say that an idea of change and transformation, a will has emerged. It is possible to see how much this situation alone relieves the peoples of Turkey and Kurdistan. We are going through a period of time in which the door to a period in which the guns are thrown into the fire and freedom halays can be performed around that fire, not the fire coming out of the barrel of the guns."

 

Underlining that the process should be approached seriously, Bayındır emphasised: "We see, hear, know and feel that there are still ideas that insist on the policy of denial and oppression. We are struggling and resisting against this."

 

Hüseyin Önge and Fatma Küçük were elected as provincial co-chairs.