CHP calls on HDP to form commission in parliament

Selin Sayek Böke, the deputy leader and spokeswoman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has called on country's opposition parties and specifically the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to form a commission in parliament in order to find a solution to the Kurdish issue.

"I'm calling on all the opposition parties, especially on the HDP, that if you want a solution and a free Turkey, then don't point to the 'Dolmabahçe Agreement' again in which the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party] and the AKP [the ruling Justice and Development Party] were sitting around a table," daily Birgün quoted Böke as saying on April 3. 

"The CHP will point to parliament for the solution to all problems," Böke added.

A joint press conference between the AKP government and the HDP was held at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul on Feb. 28, 2015, in which both sides read their own statements, while HDP deputy S?rr? Süreyya Önder listed 10 articles summarizing the priorities of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the PKK.

Since last summer clashes between Turkish security forces and PKK militants have intensified, while talks between the two ended.

Stating opposition parties should form a front, Böke added that "everything would be different" if the parties, who rejected the conciliation commission that the CHP proposed in parliament, stated the necessity and significance of the commission in terms of finding a solution to the clashes.

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