The AKP group meeting in Ankara took place after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan’s meeting with Independent deputy Leyla Zana on the Kurdish issue on Saturday afternoon. Neither Zana nor Erdoðan made a statement to the press after the meeting but at his party's meeting the Prime Minister used his usual language when speaking about the Kurdish issue.

Erdoðan, referring to the PKK, said that “The Turkish state is ready to do what needed to be done against the circles that tolerate the organization.”

Erdoðan, declaring the PKK as “enemy of both Turks and Kurds”, threatened the movement underlining that the fight against terrorism will neither take a step back nor end. “I believe the organization’s most recent attacks have revealed its hostility against the Turkish state and nation. We will continue to do what is needed to be done against the circles that support and aid this organization which is clearly also an enemy of my Kurdish brothers and sisters”, underlined Erdoðan.