Speaking at her party's weekly group meeting, HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan said, “We struggle to break the swirl of deadlock in Turkey and to prevent more people to pay a price. We carry out democratic politics for the solution of the Kurdish question, democracy, and justice problems. Despite all the attacks and obstacles, we insist on democratic politics, and we will keep insisting.”

Ankara – Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan evaluated the developments on the agenda at the party’s group meeting. Stating that they will keep asking the results of the Garê operation, Buldan said, “Because Garê is a very important breaking point. If there was another party in power now and the AKP was the opposition party, it would create a stink about what happened in Garê, it would say, ‘The ruling party is responsible for the deaths’. As an opposition party and as HDP, we do the same now, we call them to account on behalf of the people. We will keep calling. We announce here again; the responsibility of being a ruling party is to bring people alive, not dead. For this reason, the AKP government is responsible for what they did and what they couldn’t do in Garê.”

“When they failed to achieve their goals, they began to attack”

Stating that 335 people were brought to Turkey through dialogue, Buldan said, “In 2015, a delegation (including me) stayed in Lice for two days and took specialist sergeants held hostage as a result of the efforts of the Imrali Delegation, we delivered them to Lice District Governorship and those people thanked us. As a party, we repeatedly called on the government to take steps in order to bring 13 people but they didn’t take our calls into consideration. Their goal was to achieve a political victory in Garê. They used 13 people for their political goals. When they failed to achieve their goals, they began to attack the HDP.”

Buldan also talked about the Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, who alleged that HDP Ağrı MP Dilan Dirayet Taşdemir had gone to Garê and she said, “They said that a female MP of HDP had gone to Garê, received directives, returned but she keeps doing politics. This is a big lie. This is slander, black propaganda. They try to cover their crime. The more they lose, the more they fear, the more they fear, the more they attack the HDP. But they don’t understand that they lose as they attack the HDP.”