Turkey- There were always Erdoan lovers in HDP co chair says
Date
12/10/2015 5:08:20 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta has criticized certain groups within his party for being supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan while speaking to reporters in parliament.
Responding to reports of certain people within the HDP who criticized the party’s election motto of “we won’t make you president” which directly targeted Erdoan’s willingness to become a president in a presidential system rather than in a parliamentarian system Demirta said: “Only Erdoan-lovers are concerned about this. There were always Erdoan-lovers within our party.”
“These [people] were secretly Erdoan supporters. Some of them worked as deputies too. We were well aware of their desire. These people believed that the peace process would be solved by loving Erdoan contacting good relations with the [Justice and Development Party] AKP and even by courting favoring with the AKP. These [people] are former deputies because of that. Otherwise they would continue to work as deputies” Demirta said.
He also said the peace process should continue in parliament adding the party’s major aim was to revive the halted process. “A commission in parliament should be formed” said Demirta.
Meanwhile Demirta cut his visit to northern Iraq short on Dec. 9 as Turkish fighter jets hit various outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party(PKK) targets in the Kandil Mountains.
Demirta and HDP zmir deputy Erturul Kürkçü first crossed into northern Iraq from southeasternDiyarbakrprovince on late Dec. 7 going across the Habur Gate on the Turkey-Iraq border before later headed to the northern Iraqi city of Suleymaniye after making contacts in Arbil on Dec. 8.
However HDP Arbil bureau representative ilan Eminolu said Demirta and Kürkçü returned to Turkey immediately over the recent incidents in the region.
Turkish fighter jets hitPKKtargets in northern Iraq on late Dec. 8 targeting the storages and shelters ofPKKmilitants in the Kandil Hakurk Zap and Avasin Baysan camps while Demirta and Kürkçü were in Suleymaniye.
Violence between Turkish security forces andPKKmilitants reignited this summer after a suicide bombing attack against socialist activists in the border town of Suruç killed 33 people shattering a fragile peace process dubbed the “resolution process” by governmental officials following a two-and-a-half-year de facto period of non-conflict. The bombing was blamed on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) but thePKKand many in the Turkish opposition blamed the AKP for creating the conditions to facilitate the attack.
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