Speaking after the salat al eid on Tuesday morning, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan responded to the statements of BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş who said at a press conference yesterday that the government prevented him from going to visit Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan together with the two other member of the BDP delegation, deputies Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken.

“He would fall out with the Ministry of Justice and break up the links for such a meeting should he continue to make such statements”, Erdoğan said.

Erdoğan avoided commenting on Öcalan's statements from yesterday's meeting with the BDP delegation, saying that he has not been provided yet with exact information about the meeting.

In a previous statement, Demirtaş had said that the democratisation package the government has unveiled had nothing to do with the resolution process and offered no solution for the basic problems of the country. Demirtaş had also said that the government has in practice ended the resolution process.