His call comes as part of a growing clampdown on opposition media and pro-Kurdish voices that has drawn criticism from Europe.
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According to Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, the scholar was detained for spreading terrorist propaganda because he was in possession of leaflets that contained “PKK messages and images”.
His comments, which drew swift criticism from rights groups, followed the deaths of 37 people in a suicide bombing in Ankara on Sunday that security officials blamed on Kurdish militants.
The AK Party, which Erdogan founded, is working on a draft constitution but only holds 317 seats in the 550-member parliament, short of the 330 votes needed to take a new charter to a public vote.
The group said it was a response to security operations by Turkish forces in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country.
On Wednesday, The Ministry of Health issued a statement saying that 32 wounded citizens are still being treated in area hospitals with 10 remaining in critical condition.
The authorities have suggested he has been spreading “PKK propaganda”.
The PKK launched a bloody insurgency against the Turkish State in 1984 for greater autonomy for Kurds, a conflict that has claimed some 40,000 lives and flared up again last year after a 2-year ceasefire collapsed. The group is blacklisted as a terrorist organisation by Ankara, Washington and the EU. Turkey is facing a host of security threats including renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels in the southeast. Explaining the split on its website, which is banned in Turkey, the group declares the “methods of struggle” of the PKK and the Kurdistan People’s Congress “too feeble”.
The academic who has previously supported the Kurdish cause was detained after he distributed leaflets at the police department inviting people to Kurdish New Year celebrations, also known as Nowroz on Tuesday morning.
Authorities said it was to early to discuss who was to blame, but they did call it a terror attack.
Denmark’s military intelligence agency says it’s creating “a hacker academy” where to train IT specialists who, if they graduate, will be offered employment. The President added that “their titles as an MP, an academic, an author, a journalist do not change the fact that they are actually terrorists”.
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“It may be the terrorist who detonates bombs and pulls the trigger, but it is these supporters who enable them to achieve their goals”, he said in a speech. Though TAK has yet to claim responsibility for Sunday’s attack, Ege Seckin, an analyst at IHS Country Risk, told IBTimes UK the attack bears numerous hallmarks of the group, with a similar type of detonation device used in the February 17 attack.
