Turkey- HDP leader: Solution to conflict is negotiation

9/13/2015 6:48:41 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-Chairman SelahattinDemirtas said Sunday that the solution to the current conflict in Turkey's southeastern regions wasnegotiation and that his partyneitherapproved nor accepted conflict.

The Kurdish conflict was reignited following the July 20 suicide bombing in Suruc which was blamed on Daesh. The renewed violence ended the “solution process” negotiations officially initiated in early 2013aimed atending the 30-year conflictbetween the PKK and the Turkish state.

"If we had believed that there was nothing to do we would not be in the parliament"Demirtas told reporters during his visit to the southeastern province ofDiyarbakir.

HDPpassed the 10 percent threshold with 13.12 percent votes to take 80 seats last June -- marking the first time it entered the parliament as a party. But it will have to repeat the feat as Turkey is headed to snap elections on Nov. 1 as parties in Paliament proved unable to agree on terms to form a coalition government.

Demirtas said that a break was needed to the rivalry opposingpolitical parties:"Let's seriously discuss comingto the table for peace. This is our call."

Since July more than 100 members of the security forces have been martyred and hundreds of PKK terrorists killed in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq including airstrikes.

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