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HDP leader Demirtaş says vandalism on party offices is rehearsal for civil war

HDP leader Demirtaş says vandalism on party offices is rehearsal for civil war

Selahattin Demirtaş. (Photo: DHA)

September 09, 2015, Wednesday/ 11:23:18/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM / ISTANBUL

Leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş has slammed the acts of vandalism on his party's offices, saying that the attacks are not a reaction to the people who have been martyred in recent violence, but rather they are rehearsals for a civil war.

Stating that there were 176 attacks on HDP offices before the June 7 election while the settlement process with the country's Kurds was still ongoing, Demirtaş said the attacks are not new to them, and also that they are not a reaction against terrorism.

Referring to the breaking down of the settlement process between the government and the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Demirtaş said the HDP was not who decided to start a war, and it does not support that decision. “The decision [to start a war] belongs to the president and the prime minister,” Demirtaş said.

Demirtaş claimed that the recent attacks, which targeted almost 130 buildings belonging to the HDP, started after the military confirmed that 16 soldiers were killed in an ambush by the PKK in Dağlıca on Sunday, and are government-backed. The HDP leader, lashing out at the attackers, said what they are doing is a crime and they will eventually be tried in court for their actions.

A two year old cease-fire between the terrorist PKK and the government ended in July after some members of PKK killed two police officers. Clashes have been ongoing ever since, claiming the lives of more than 100 members of the Turkish security forces. After the ambush by the PKK in Dağlıca, which has been recognized as the deadliest attack since the conflict began, caused the death of 16 soldiers, people started to attack HDP offices around Turkey, breaking windows and setting HDP flags on fire.

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