The statement of the Common Candidate campaign

After the killing of Hrant Dink all of us responded in anger and stood shoulder to shoulder. We saw that we were not alone, that we were hundreds of thousands, and gained hope.

We are fed up with only being able to come together shoulder to shoulder against the dangerous levels of racism, warmongering, intolerance, employment, poverty and injustice when we go to funerals. We want the voice of those calling for equality, democracy, the brotherhood of peoples, welfare to be heard more loudly.

We all, together with every union and left party, have common demands, and we want these to be heard in parliament.

We, the signatories of this call, see that no party or group on its own can achieve this aim. We want to prepare for the election of independent candidates who will promise that they will never give permission for war, will never vote for privatisation or discrimination, and pledge to be the voice of workers and the oppressed, unlike those who currently claim to represent us in parliament who are the voice of the bosses, the generals, bureaucrats and the IMF. We believe that if we concentrate on our basic common policies, avoid getting tangled up in details, that the common candidates who sign this declaration will save hundreds of thousands of people from the blind alley of not voting at all, or of voting for the CHP.

Our Common Candidates will promise to:

Support workers against the IMF and the bosses,
Oppose war and every kind of cross border military operation,
Defend a peaceful political, not military, solution to the Kurdish problem,
Work for the brotherhood of peoples, equality and freedom,
Protect those who have been democratically elected against those who have been appointed,
Defend freedoms against prohibitions,
Be the voice of the oppressed against all kinds of religious, sexual, racial discrimination,
To make no concessions to racism and discrimination,
To side with womens' rights and freedoms,
To stand against the destruction of the environment

All parties and organisations that support this initiative should declare their support for the joint candidates and give full support for the election campaign. There should be jointly produced propaganda materials for all the candidates and all should use them. No one should shrug the responsibility to create this alternative that is in all our hearts that will excite hundreds of thousands and raise hope for the struggle for labour, peace and democracy on the streets and at the ballot box.

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