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| Deputy PM Akdogan strikes back at HDP, calls it 'extension' of PKK |
| 2015-09-10 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan has retaliated against the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who earlier accused the government of supporting a campaign of "lynching" and dragging the country into war after two nights of attacks against its offices. "Without getting embarrassed, they are accusing the state and the government of declaring war. First of all, this is not a war, this is slaughtering of our people by a terrorist organization," Akdogan said on Sept. 9, referring to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been launching almost daily attacks against Turkish soldiers and coppers. "The HDP is acting like an open supporter, extension and political branch of the terrorist organization," he said, again apparently referring to the PKK. Earlier in the same day, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas had said, "So many children lost their parents. So many parents lost their children that we are ashamed to hug our own." Recalling Demirtas's remarks, Akdogan said, "Those children were martyred by the terrorist organization which he [Demirtas] supported." Tensions have spiked after 29 soldiers and coppers were killed in two separate attacks on Sept. 6 and Sept. 8, the deadliest strikes in the current phase of the conflict. |
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