‘We can resolve the Kurdish question with HDP,’ says main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu

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Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has talked about the Kurdish question in the first part of documentary filmmaker Günel Cantak's "Mr. Kemal and His Alliances" documentary.

Main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu has said that at the elections in Turkey in 2015, he supported the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) entering the Parliament. Commenting on the Kurdish question, he has said:

There is a Kurdish question that the institution of politics has been unable to solve for 35-40 years. We need a legitimate body to resolve the Kurdish question. The institution that we call the state does not address an illegitimate body.

"Erdoğan did this. The state was limited to addressing İmralı (where the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party / PKK's jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan is held). For instance, İmralı is not a legitimate body.

"Who is the legitimate body? We can see the HDP as a legitimate body. It had the people's support. It came to the Parliament; therefore, it is inside the Parliament and doing its duty. If this question is to be resolved, we can do it with a legitimate body, with the HDP. For this reason, I think that the HDP must be at the Parliament." (RT/SD)