İSTANBUL- HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan visited the Alevi sanctuary, Gazi Djemevi in İstanbul, which was attacked during the funeral ceramony of Grup Yorum member İbrahim Gökçek. 

 

Peoples' Democratic Part Co-Chair Pervin Buldan, Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson İdil Uğurlu, HDP MP's Hüda Kaya, Garo Paylan, Musa Piroğlu and Zeynel Özen visited the Gazi Djemevi, an Alevi sanctuary, in which Grup Yorum's death fast resister İbrahim Gökçek was farewelled to his final journey.

 

Buldan made a public speech in her visit as she spoke as follows:

 

"The attacks on İbrahim's funeral is the sign of the cruelty and the mentality that supports cruelty. First of all, I would like to share my condolences with all our comrades, friends and citizens for the loss of İbrahim and for the loss of all the ones who lost due to coronavirus. What happened in case of İbrahim reflects the discrimantory, oppressive, denialist approach of hundreds of years. Just two days ago they attacked this sanctuary and they kidnapped the body of İbrahim Gökçek. This is such an attack to the will of Alevi people and such a pain they were exposed to is unacceptable. 

 

A SECOND DEATH 

 

We see such attacks also in Kurdish cemeteries. They break the fravestones of the Kurdish people just to give them the feeling of a second death. So do our Alevi people suffer the same cruelty in the person of İbrahim. Attacking a dead body and the funeral is the biggest disrespect in human history, that non of the beliefs or holly books or religions would ever accept. However, the political power today uses the religion as a tool for politics and they also attack all the religious values. We will not remain silent when they attack the graves of Kurdish people, when they attack the sanctuaries of Alevi people and when they disrespect the Armenian churches

 

GOVERNMENT SHOULD APOLOGIZE

 

In this country, the popluation is not only consist of Turkish and Sunni Muslims, but also Alevis, Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians and many other people of cultures and religions live here. We condemnt this attack. We invite the political power to apologize for this attack. First of all, government should apologize from alevi people and they should apologize from the family of the people whose funerals have been attacked. The government should apologize from the people, whose relatives' graves have been attacked."