Erdo?an says HDP's Sur march 'a call to terror'

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said a call by the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for a public demonstration in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, where a curfew has been imposed for more than three months, is a "call for terror." 

Diyarbak?r police dispersed numerous crowds that gathered upon the call, using water cannon and tear gas. 
"There is no need to file a criminal complaint. Everything is clear and this is an invitation to public prosecutors," Erdo?an said during a visit to Nigeria. 

While underlining his belief that his "Kurdish brothers" would not comply with a call that "smells like terror, that smells like an invitation to terror," Erdo?an added that nobody has the right to "create trouble or break the peace."

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu also said March 2 that Selahattin Demirta?, the HDP co-chair who made the call, was "plotting against the country" and "collaborating with terrorists to drag Turkey into chaos."

"Their business is in no way the country's peace and tranquility, but on the contrary, dragging Turkey into chaos [and] collaborating with terrorists," Davuto?lu said in Ankara, while responding to journalists in Ankara during a joint press meeting with Turkish Cypriot Prime Minister Ömer Kalyoncu. "We will not allow this. I'm saying it again," he said.

Demirta? had made a joint call with Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-chair Kamuran Yüksek on March 1, urging Diyarbak?r's residents to march toward Sur in protest of the military curfew and clashes that have been continuing for over three months. 

"We do not view a 24-hour war being waged in the center of a city for three months as an ordinary situation. All Diyarbak?r residents should rise...