Suggesting that Ankara’s policies toward the PKK have impeded resolution of the Kurdish issue in Turkey.
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Earlier, the deputy prime minister of Turkey, Yalcin Akdogan said that of all the parties having a right to be represented in the country’s parliament, the People’s Republican Party (CHP) is closer to creation of a coalition government. Demirtas also accused Erdogan of obstructing a plan by the PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan to call for his followers to disarm.
Tensions rose in Turkey after a suicide attack in the city of Suruc near the Syrian border last week killed 32 people and injured about 100, and two police officers were murdered in the southern city of Ceylanpinar.
The bombing and later deadly attacks on security forces led to a nationwide crackdown on militant groups – primarily Daesh, the PKK and the leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front – that have seen hundreds of suspects arrested since July 24.
Turkey has since launched air strikes against PKK positions in northern Iraq and ISIL positions in Syria.
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The solution process to end the 30-year conflict between Turkey and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents began in 2013; in February this year senior government ministers met with HDP leaders officially for the first time. “We are acting for the interests of Turkey, more than those of the party”, he said.
