HDP Group chair and member of the Imrali delegation, Pervin Buldan, said they would not allow the Internal Security Package to get through Parliament in its current state.

‘Not in keeping with the spirit of the joint declaration'

Buldan told ANF yesterday that they had held a meeting with the AKP prior to the joint press conference regarding the Internal Security draft bill. She said: “We told them the package was not in keeping with the spirit of the joint declaration. We said the package should be withdrawn. They said they were not in favour of this, but that if there were sections we wanted to change we should prepare new motions.”

Buldan said no changes had yet been made, adding that she did not know what the AKP intended to do. “The President and the Prime Minister say they will not withdraw it. We do not want it to become law in this state." Buldan said the draft law consisted of 132 articles, and that since the acting Speaker was from the opposition for 2 weeks the government would not be able to force it through soon.

Buldan said they would not permit the bill to become law in its present form and called on the AKP to take a step back.

'The package will adversely affect the process’

Buldan said that Kurdish People’s Leader Halk Abdullah Öcalan had reacted to the 'Internal Security Package’ at their meeting and said that such a law should not be enacted at this time. She said he had added that the legislation would cause the AKP problems, but that they could not see this, and that such a law would adversely affect the process.