The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK ) Executive Council Presidency has released a statement responding to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's threats about the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) delegation visiting Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı prison.

The KCK pointed out that Erdoğan's threats and approach manifested his and his government's intention to start a war instead of taking steps for a solution to the Kurdish issue.

KCK remarked that the statements of the PM and his government targeted the BDP itself and was an intervention in the talks the party is having with the Kurdish leader in the scope of the democratic resolution process that the government itself has also recognized.

The KCK said the government's attacks on the party meant sabotaging the process and making negotiations meaningless, and pointed out that there could be no negotiation or dialogue if there are impositions by one side on the other.

Reminding the fact that it is a historic chance for Turkey to make negotiations with the leader of the Kurdish people, the main interlocutor to be addressed in the process, the KCK stressed that the prevention of the BDP delegation's visits to İmralı meant ending the process and exposed the AKP's mindset not intended for a solution for the Kurdish issue.

The KCK noted that the government couldn't tolerate the criticism it draws from the Kurdish side over its approach that causes an interruption and deadlock in the process, adding that this was because it didn't want the exposure of its negative and insincere attitude that goes counter to the spirit of the peace process.

Last week BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said at a press conference that the government prevented him from going to visit Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

PM Erdoğan answered saying that  “He [Demirtaş] would fall out with the Ministry of Justice and break up the links for such a meeting should he continue to make such statements”.

Demirtaş had previously criticized the government saying it was not interested in any peace process.