Erdoğan opposes also Monitoring Committee!

2015-03-20 11:56:05

İSTANBUL (DİHA) -  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that he opposed to establish a Monitoring Committee as part of the solution process.

After saying "There is no Kurdish question, what more are Kurds asking for?" and faced extensive reactions in the country, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan now said that he also opposed forming a Monitoring Committee. “I do not have any information about it, I read about it in the newspapers,” Erdoğan claimed on March 20 at a press conference, when asked about reports suggesting that the government and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had agreed on establishing a six-member Monitoring Committee.

“I want to clearly state that I do not look positively on such a thing,” he said at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport before departing for a visit to Ukraine. “During my time as prime minister, I objected to the idea of sending a group from the ‘wise people committee’ [to İmralı, where jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party Leader Abdullah Öcalan is serving a life sentence]. I’m saying the same thing now. Such things are not right,” Erdoğan added.

The president’s remarks came one day before a crucial date in the Kurdish solution process, after a five-member Imrali Delegation visited Kurdish leader on March 19 and received his historical message to be read at the Newroz festivities in Diyarbakır (Amed) on March 21. 

(nt)