Mr Demirtas urged both Turkey and the PKK to return to the peace process.
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Erdoğan uses any opportunity to declare that the Peoples’ Democratic Party is linked to the PKK, which has been recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey.
“Three terrorist organizations Daesh, the PKK and the DHKP-C have started simultaneous attacks on Turkey”, he said.
Abdülhamit Gül, the AKP’s deputy chairman, tweeted the party’s intention to issue the complaint on Monday, claiming that HDP officials were celebrating the outlawed PKK group’s actions rather than condemning them.
A recent wave of violence across Turkey has been sparked by the killing of 32 people in Suruc on July 20 in a suicide bomb attack blamed on Daesh. Turkish soldiers have also been attacked and killed. Our young people are dying.
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. “It is necessary to use democratic means to make weapons on both sides silent”, Demirtas said.
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The renewed military campaign and the arrests targeting the PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state partly from camps in northern Iraq, has raised suspicions that Turkey’s real agenda is checking Kurdish territorial ambitions rather than fighting ISIS.
