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A leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party has said that the country should "immediately" return to the 'solution process' amid worsening violence between Kurdish militants and the security forces.
Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Wednesday, the co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas said: "This country's children are losing their lives. Our young people are dying. Soldiers, police, guerillas, civilians: all of them are people of this society, our brothers."
The solution process to end the 30-year conflict between Turkey and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) insurgents began in 2013; in February this year senior government ministers met with HDP leaders officially for the first time.
Turkey, the U.S. and the European Union list the PKK as a terrorist group.
The process has stalled after the murder of a number of police officers which the PKK has claimed responsibility for. Turkish soldiers have also been attacked and killed.
Demirtas said that there was a need to create "democratic pressure" to stop the violence.
"We are ready to act together with any politician who spends effort on this," he said.
Nothing that he was ready to "take responsibility for peace," Demirtas added: "Let's silence the guns again."
Earlier today, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan claimed that the HDP had been duped by enemies of the country's solution process.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed Tuesday that the solution process had been "abused" and "seriously damaged". - Ankara
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