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| HDP co-chair Demirtas calls on PKK to halt violence 'without ifs or buts' |
| 2015-08-24 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has called on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to halt a month of violence against security forces "without ifs or buts." The comments were the clearest call yet from HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas for the PKK to agree to an unconditional cease-fire, although the leader also called for a summary end to government attacks in the east and southeast. "The PKK has to stop its armed attacks and bombings in the towns and the mountains without ifs or buts," the Dogan News Agency quoted Demirtas as saying in a speech in the western city of Izmir. "There is no alternative for us. More deaths of Kurds, Turks, soldiers, guerillas and police must be stopped," said Demirtas. "The government must halt operations with ifs or buts [as well]," he said. The government accuses the HDP of being the PKK's political wing but Demirtas has repeatedly insisted that there is distance between the two organizations. With Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... now planning to call snap polls for Nov. 1, the HDP is mindful of not putting off its non-Kurdish supporters who voted for the party in inconclusive June 7 polls. The HDP then easily broke through the 10 percent threshold needed to win seats in the parliament largely thanks to its success in expanding its support base. |
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