'HDP is ready for dialogue with the opposition without preconditions'

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Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Mithat Sancar attended the morning news program of İsmail Küçükkaya on Fox TV today (October 5).

The attendance of the Co-Chair came amid a recent wave of detentions and arrests that has been targeting HDP politicians since September 25.

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Speaking about the operation against HDP's former MPs and Central Executive Committee members as part of an investigation into the Kobani demonstrations in 2014, Mithat Sancar said:

"On October 6-8, we went to Kobanê in company with a minister. It was a Minister that made me cross from Mürşitpınar to Kobani as a member of the Wise People Delegation. It was a week before October 6-8. Sırrı Süreyya Önder had been in the room of Interior Minister for 48 hours."

'A civilian commission should be established'

Sancar underlined that despite the operations against the party, HDP still ranked first among young voters. "We promise peace to the youth. This is why we are in politics," Sancar noted and and added:

"52 people lost their lives. Several people were brutally massacred. What really happened? Who were the dark circles within the security forces indicated by [the then Interior Minister] Efkan Ala? Does the HDP have a responsibility? A civilian commission should be formed to investigate it."

'HDP is standing firm'

"The only way to change the state of affairs is to form a wide alliance of democracy," Sancar indicated further and briefly added the following:

"Our party is standing firm regardless of whether they close the HDP or not. An important item on our new agenda of struggle is to meet all opposition leaders in the upcoming period. We are ready for dialogue with the opposition without any preconditions."

'The only way is to form a broad alliance'

Referring to imprisoned former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş's remarks that "if he were not behind bars, he and his wife Başak Demirtaş would go to İYİ Party Chair Meral Akşener's house for breakfast," Sancar said:

"What Demirtaş suggested was, in fact, a channel of communication. People can resolve their differences by talking.

"That was also a statement of that type. The only way to change the state of affairs is to form a broad alliance of democracy.

"An important item on our new agenda of struggle is to meet all opposition leaders in the upcoming period. We are ready for dialogue with the opposition without any preconditions." (RT/SD)