In the Questions&Answers session at the end of the first day of the 7th International Conference on UE, Turkey and the Kurds, BDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas said that in order to further the search for peace and to respond to the unilateral PKK ceasefire the Turkish government should put an end to military operations, to stop the arrests of Kurdish politicians releasing those still in prison, and finally to lower the threshold before the next general elections on 12 June 2011.