Sitting around the table will help solving current political crisis
Sitting around the table will help solving current political crisis
Meeting Parliament president Cemil Çiçek on Friday, BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Group President Selahattin Demirtaþ reportedly proposed that all parties should 'come together at the table before oath-taking'.
BDP Group Deputy Chairman Selahattin Demirtaþ and BDP Co-Chair Gültan Kýþanak, who are boycotting the parliament as parliamentary group, paid a visit to Parliamentary Deputy Speaker Cemil Çiçek and made the first official dialogue with Çiçek to exchange ideas in overcoming the crisis in Ankara.
According to information received,Demirtaþ and Kýþanak suggested the followings during the meeting; "We should first sit all together around the table. We are ready to do that. Coming together will have no meaning if it happens after taking the parliamentary oath. We should first come together at the table and see how we can find an agreement to solve the crisis. However, the Prime Minister and some AKP administrators should, as a starting point, change the 'political language' they use. We don't have any other precondition as a declaration of intention concerning Hatip Dicle case. Mutual understanding will be enough in the first phase and all these problems should absolutely be solved in the long run.
Parliament president Çiçek reportedly said the followings during the meeting; "The Parliament is the definite place of a solution to the Kurdish problem which is among the fundamental problems in the country. You should be in the Parliament to contribute to the solution of the Kurdish question and other fundamental issues. I am ready to make every effort in this process and I ask you to share your proposals if you have any except for 'sitting around the table' within this process.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
BDP Group Deputy Chairman Selahattin Demirtaþ and BDP Co-Chair Gültan Kýþanak, who are boycotting the parliament as parliamentary group, paid a visit to Parliamentary Deputy Speaker Cemil Çiçek and made the first official dialogue with Çiçek to exchange ideas in overcoming the crisis in Ankara.
According to information received,Demirtaþ and Kýþanak suggested the followings during the meeting; "We should first sit all together around the table. We are ready to do that. Coming together will have no meaning if it happens after taking the parliamentary oath. We should first come together at the table and see how we can find an agreement to solve the crisis. However, the Prime Minister and some AKP administrators should, as a starting point, change the 'political language' they use. We don't have any other precondition as a declaration of intention concerning Hatip Dicle case. Mutual understanding will be enough in the first phase and all these problems should absolutely be solved in the long run.
Parliament president Çiçek reportedly said the followings during the meeting; "The Parliament is the definite place of a solution to the Kurdish problem which is among the fundamental problems in the country. You should be in the Parliament to contribute to the solution of the Kurdish question and other fundamental issues. I am ready to make every effort in this process and I ask you to share your proposals if you have any except for 'sitting around the table' within this process.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
