Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) central office has released a written statement on Tuesday about the leakage of the Imralı meeting's notes to Milliyet daily at the end of February.

Announcing the results of the investigation launched within the party on the leakage, BDP said that two members of the Party Council have resigned and one press member has been fired in connection with the leak of the notes to a journalist working for the daily.

BDP said that the three BDP deputies who were part of the delegation that paid a visit to Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan on 23 February 2013 had put the meeting notes in writing and read them during the meeting of the party.

“Despite our party's decision not to copy the notes, two members of the party council,  M. Rauf Kocaman and Resul Baykara, together with press officer Ali Özgüç copied the notes for themselves without the party's knowledge during a short recess at a party meeting. Özgüç allowed journalist Alper Atalay from Milliyet daily to take a photo of the notes which was later published on the paper", said BDP and apologized to Öcalan as well as to the people and institutions mentioned in the notes for the publication, noting that the content of the meeting  was not supposed to be published.

BDP condemned those who deliberately targeted the party and its executives by spreading misinformation on the subject.

BDP underlined that the party was well aware of the responsibilities it was supposed to take in the historic process, and promised determination for the fulfillment of requirements of the process.