In the joint written statement made on the occasion of the International Day of Migrants on 18 December, the emphasis was on the "AKP-MHP, a party to the war against Syria, that has caused millions of people to migrate to Turkey and other countries."

The statement said: "The world welcomes the International Day of Migrants on 18 December, unfortunately, in conditions of war, poverty and inequality that have made millions of people refugees."

The HDP and the HDK continued: "Those who start or cause wars, instead of ending their war policies, resort to military solution methods in order not to allow those fleeing the war to cross their borders. States avoid creating deep-rooted humanitarian solutions to the phenomenon of migration and find the ‘solution’ in practices including fences, walls, mines, repatriation agreements and torture against immigrants. As a result of international agreements, customs and borders for capital movements and weapons are liberalized, borders against immigrants are almost built with steel walls."

The statement continued: "States that exploit people's forced migration are usurping all the rights of migrants and refugees as well as the Geneva Convention. Instead of defending refugee rights, they destroy them.

The migrant and refugee problem has reached huge proportions for Turkey in the last eleven years. The AKP-MHP was a party to the war against Syria which caused millions of people to migrate to Turkey and other countries. The right of millions of people to live freely is in danger due to the war policy still being waged against the Kurds in Rojava. The AKP-MHP coalition sees no harm in using millions of people who migrated to Turkey due to the war as a tool of blackmail and bargaining. In return for keeping refugees without status within the borders of Turkey, the inhumane practices carried out in Syria and Turkey are ignored by other states."

The statement added: "We equally oppose racist aggression against Kurds, hate speech against Syrian immigrants, exploitation and oppression of Afghan, African or other migrant groups, and we do not accept that people are forced to migrate or are oppressed in the place where they migrate. Every person should have conditions worthy of human dignity in the territory they live in. We insist that they cannot be deprived of their basic rights even if they have to migrate.

On the occasion of 18 December, International Migrants Day, we express once again that we will continue to defend the fundamental rights of migrants and refugees. We call on Turkey and all other states to abandon their policies of war and ecological destruction, to guarantee the right to life of women, children and LGBTI+s who are the biggest victims of war, and to respect the rights of all migrants."