Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that he is against a Monitoring Delegation, the formation of which is seen as a crucial step to start formal negotiations in the resolution process.

Alleging that a Monitoring Delegation will not contribute to the process, Erdoğan said: “Let me put it frankly. I am not positive about it”.

After his recent statement saying: “There is no Kurdish problem. What more do Kurds want?” drew much criticism, he then announced that he is against the formation of a Monitoring Delegation at the airport before he left for Ukraine.

The government authorities recently announced that work for the formation of a Monitoring Delegation had been completed, while Erdoğan said he know nothing about it and is following the news from the press, and then added: “Let me put it openly. I am not positive about it. During my period as PM I also objected to the visit of some members of the wise persons delegation. I said then that I do not find it right. I still don’t find it right.”

Erdoğan said the Monitoring Delegation cannot contribute to the resolution process and added that the number of persons in the Delegation, whether 5 or 10, and their going to Imrali would not change anything. “You can’t do this just to satisfy some people. The government should undertake what it has to do within the framework of the process it initiated. The rest of the process should remain in this framework. Some novelists were sent to the mountains. What was the outcome? New novels? I don’t consider this right”, said Erdoğan.