Turkey: HDP may externally back an AKP-CHP coalition
'If our principles are included', says Demirtas
18 June, 18:14
(ANSAmed) - ISTANBUL, MAY 18 - The head of the pro-Kurdish party HDP, Selahattin Demirtas, told Turkish media on Thursday that his party would support the AKP and the CHP if they were to form a coalition that includes their principles. ''So far we have had neither official nor informal meetings, but our doors are open to all parties,'' he added, discussing the possibility of a broad coalition made up of the two main parties, which together would have 390 of 550 seats in parliament. Demirtas had until now excluded a coalition with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP. ''From now on Davutoglu (the outgoing prime minister, Ed.) must get rid of the rhetoric and the style used prior to the elections, which led to the AKP's defeat,'' Demirtas added. In a television interview, Ahmet Davutoglu said that he was nor ruling out any possibility, including a coalition with the pro-Kurdish party, but called on them to ''cut their ties with terrorism and violence''.
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