Turkish Deputies Meeting With PKK Terrorists Under Investigation

An investigation has been launched by prosecutors into a video showing deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and a group of terrorists from the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) together during a meeting, which is claimed to having been planned beforehand.

The video which made its way into the Turkish media on Saturday showed terrorists and nine BDP deputies led by the party’s co-chairwoman Gülten Kışanak chatting and hugging each other along a highway in the Şemdinli district of the southeastern province of Hakkari.  The BDP says the “encounter” was not planned beforehand.

The Van Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Saturday that an investigation had been launched into the video in accordance with Turley’s Counterterrorism Law (TMK).
The office said the meeting appears to be a pre-scheduled one in contrary to BDP’s claims that it happened spontaneously when the terrorists blocked a road along their route.
The BDP deputies in the group were Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Sebahat Tuncel, Esat Canan, Adil Kurt, Nazmi Gür, Halil Aksu and Hüsamettin Zenderlioğlu as well as independent deputy Aysel Tuğluk, who was elected to Parliament with the support of the BDP.
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