I have been hearing about this for a while from many Kurdish friends. Now I see it is on the news:Abdullah Öcalan stated that Selahattin Demirtaş’s famous 2015 slogan “Seni başkan yaptırmayacağız” (“We will not let you become president”) was a mistake.turkiyekhabar+3Öcalan criticized Demirtaş’s choice to use the slogan so directly against Erdoğan, saying it was an unnecessary move and a strategic error. He noted that there was no need to “turn it into such a direct slogan” and that confronting Erdoğan in such a way was not the right approach for the movement’s goals. Öcalan emphasized that his objective was not personally about preventing Erdoğan from becoming president, and he advocated for focusing on broader democratic alliances and expanding the movement instead.yuksekovahalkinsesigazetesi+2Broader ContextÖcalan also suggested that Demirtaş and his colleague Sırrı Süreyya Önder had made this mistake together, and that the approach risked narrowing HDP’s political strategy rather than broadening its influence within Turkish politics. He advised instead that the party should have focused on widening its democratic front and working toward more general alliances.haber.sol+2