Criticizing Baykal's acceptance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's invitation to talk about the Kurdish initiative -- a plan announced by the government this summer as a means to find a peaceful settlement for the country's long-standing Kurdish question by extending the rights of Kurds and isolating supporters of separatist terror -- Bahçeli accused the CHP of being a member of a “destructive troika,” along with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
“The AK Party, which plays the leading role in the so-called Kurdish initiative process that will end with the disintegration of Turkey and dissolution of the Turkish nation, have made some improvements in the last week in their quest to look for crutches and accomplices and contacted the CHP, following their contact with the DTP,” he said.
He also recalled that Baykal had set the presence of television crews as a condition of meeting with Erdoğan. He said, “A meeting going on in front of cameras rolling won't save the CHP from the responsibility of the process.”
According to the MHP leader, the CHP has given into blackmailing by the AK Party, which pointed to many similarities between a Kurdish report the CHP had released in 1989 and the ideas being discussed as part of the government's Kurdish initiative. “It is obvious that in this report there are points similar to those being voiced by the AK Party and its collaborators today. For this reason, he would either have to deny his views from 21 years ago or continue to defend them.
He had no way out. Prime Minister Erdoğan has turned this [report] issue into blackmail.”
In his speech he also criticized two protocols signed on Saturday with Armenia to normalize ties and establish diplomatic relations between the two countries, saying the deal was part of the AK Party's submissive foreign policy.
