MHP CRITICIZES BAYKAL FOR PLANNING TO MEET PM ERDOGAN
Today’s Zaman
14 October 2009, Wednesday
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli, speaking
at his party’s parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday, lashed out
at Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal’s acceptance
of an invitation from the prime minister to meet and talk about the
government’s Kurdish initiative.
Criticizing Baykal’s acceptance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan’s invitation to talk about the Kurdish initiative — a
plan announced by the government this summer as a means to find a
peaceful settlement for the country’s long-standing Kurdish question by
extending the rights of Kurds and isolating supporters of separatist
terror — Bahceli accused the CHP of being a member of a "destructive
troika," along with the Justice and Development Party (AK Party)
and the Democratic Society Party (DTP).
"The AK Party, which plays the leading role in the so-called Kurdish
initiative process that will end with the disintegration of Turkey
and dissolution of the Turkish nation, have made some improvements
in the last week in their quest to look for crutches and accomplices
and contacted the CHP, following their contact with the DTP," he said.
He also recalled that Baykal had set the presence of television crews
as a condition of meeting with Erdogan. He said, "A meeting going on
in front of cameras rolling won’t save the CHP from the responsibility
of the process."
According to the MHP leader, the CHP has given into blackmailing by
the AK Party, which pointed to many similarities between a Kurdish
report the CHP had released in 1989 and the ideas being discussed as
part of the government’s Kurdish initiative. "It is obvious that in
this report there are points similar to those being voiced by the AK
Party and its collaborators today. For this reason, he would either
have to deny his views from 21 years ago or continue to defend them.
He had no way out. Prime Minister Erdogan has turned this [report]
In his speech he also criticized two protocols signed on Saturday
with Armenia to normalize ties and establish diplomatic relations
between the two countries, saying the deal was part of the AK Party’s
submissive foreign policy.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
