HDP: Air strikes, a plan to burn the country
ANKARA (DİHA) - Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has released a statement regarding the airstrikes conducted by the Turkish army against guerrilla zones since last night.
According to initial reports emerging from the guerrilla zones and surrounding areas bombarded by Turkish warplanes, civilians have been wounded and forest fires begun in the area.
Turkey's delicate peace process to end the Kurdish problem has reached a turning point after an overnight attack by Turkish warplanes on PKK bases in Federal Kurdistan Region. Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoğlu stressed that his government AKP wants the PKK lay down its weapons and "those who abuse the peace process will never be tolerated."
'AKP government ended ceasefire'
"The AKP [Justice and Development Party] government, state institutions and the army have unfortunately taken steps that ended the solution and peace process, as well as the effective ceasefire," the HDP said in a written statement after Davutoğlu's speech.
'A plan to burn the country'
"A plan to win back a single party majority again by creating a nationalist and militarist climate, making an impression of engaging in a comprehensive struggle against terrorism is a plan to burn the country," the statement added.
'We have no problem that we cannot solve through talks'
While slamming the AKP and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for "mixing the fight against the Kurdish people with the fight against ISIS gangs," the HDP also call for dialogue. "We have no problem that we cannot solve through talks and negotiations," it said.
'Truce has no meaning anymore after air strikes'
"The truce has no meaning anymore after these intense air strikes by the occupant Turkish army," the PKK said in a statement on its website. The PKK, who until now have observed a ceasefire since 2013, outraged the government by claiming the July 22 shooting dead of two Turkish police at home while they slept.
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