“I respect their voter base. I would try to change their minds. If HDP distances itself from terrorism, they’ll receive the treatment any other party would from us,” Davutoglu said during a broadcast on independent news site Medyascope.
He said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had put him in charge of the Kurdish-Turkish peace process and he put in great efforts for it to succeed, but it was to no avail.
“When I became prime minister I discovered a sad truth: The public order had started to be eroded under the guise of a ‘peace process.’ There were parallel courts and fines,” said Davutoglu.
The former official also accused HDP of trying to include Turkey in a “tangle of terrorism.”
Touching on his resignation as prime minister, he said that the mistakes of the government during his time in office are blamed on him, while Erdogan is praised for the successes.
“I’m still the same person in terms of carrying out Turkey’s foreign policies including ‘Zero problems with neighbors.’ I don’t think that should change,” Davutoglu said.
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