Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan challenged the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) today to detail its proposals for resolving the Kurdish conflict and explain what it means by “social consensus,” Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Addressing CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Erdoğan said: “He keeps saying that the anti-terror struggle should be carried out with a social consensus. What is a social consensus? Come on, go ahead. Tell us what a social consensus means, no one is gagging your mouth.”
Erdoğan, speaking at a meeting of his party’s provincial chairmen, derided the CHP’s fledgling efforts to reach out to the Kurds, claiming that Kılıçdaroğlu’s landmark pre-election meeting in Hakkari last year was only made possible under a “special deal” with Kurdish militants. In further remarks at the gathering, the prime minister described his Justice and Development Party (AKP) as “the party not only of Turkey but also of the world,” saying it had “responsibilities not only for our people, but for humanity as well.”
