Turkish people “must not lose their common sense in the face of intolerable attacks carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli said on Dec. 18, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Bahçeli’s remarks came after a suicide car bomb targeted a military vehicle on Dec. 17 killed 14 soldiers and wounded 55 others in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.
[br]Speaking to private broadcaster NTV on Dec. 17, and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said all signs pointed to the PKK in the Kayseri attack,which followed twin bombings claimed by the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the PKK, or that killed 44 people,mostly police officers, in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district on Dec. 10.
“No matter how right we are, and no matter how intolerable the attacks we are exposed to,we must not lose our common sense,” Bahçeli said on his official Twitter account.
He said the aim of the attacks was to drive Turkey into civil clash and that PKK militants wanted to “peril the streets because they failed to attain what they wanted on the mountains.”
Bahçeli also said he “could not justify the arson attacks” carried out across the country on Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) buildings and headquarters following the Kayseri attack.[br]
“We cannot say ‘OK’ to these invitations of provocations, or even if we are hurt. We cannot see the arson of buildings as right and fair,” he said.
The MHP head stated that Kurdish people also suffered from the actions of the PKK and would respond to them in the strongest term.
Source: tert.am