HDP Ready to Support AKP-CHP Coalition Government / We are not taking instructions from the KCK: Demirtaş

MESOP : NO INSTRUCTIONS ? – EVEN BY APO ? / SELAHATTIN TELLING TALES

Basnews – 19 June 2015 – ISTANBUL – The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that it is ready to support a so-called grand coalition government that would be formed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People’s Party (CHP) on the condition that the coalition embraces their party’s principles, too.

“So far, we haven’t had any official or unofficial meetings for coalition talks. Our door is open to every party,” HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş told reporters on June 18. “From now on, [Prime Minister Ahmet] Davutoğlu should abandon his rhetoric and style he used before the election. This rhetoric led to the loss of the AKP in the election,” Demirtaş said. “If the AKP and the CHP form a coalition in a way that embraces our principles too, then we would lend support from the outside,” he said.

Based on the elections results, the AKP will have 258 seats in the 550-seat parliament, the CHP will have 132, while the MHP and the HDP will have 80 seats apiece.Having lost its parliamentary majority, the AKP is expected to engage in coalition negotiations with the other parties. Demirtaş’s remarks came shortly after Davutoğlu said that he was open to talks with the HDP, even though he frequently accuses the party of being provocative. In Diyarbakır, Demirtaş touched upon the nature of relations between their party and the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), a supra organization of Kurdish groups that includes the PKK.

“Everybody can state their own opinion; the KCK executives can also state their opinions. They are actors in the resolution process,” Demirtaş said. “But we are not taking instructions from the KCK. Our party makes its decisions at its own boards. We are not taking instructions from anybody,” Demirtaş said. Demirtaş’s remarks about the relationship between the HDP and the KCK came only a few days after Duran Kalkan, a senior executive committee member of the KCK, ruled out the engagement of the HDP in any coalition formula.