Update - Erdogan Slams Hdp Leader For Suruc Bombing Claims

Turkey's president has slammed the co-leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party for his claims about a bombing in Turkey's southeast that claimed 32 lives. 



"These statements are vulgar. I want to express that the presidency is a very high position and should not to be dishonored like this," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters at a Turkey-China business forum during a state visit to Beijing on Thursday.



On July 28, Selahattin Demirtas blamed Erdogan for the Suruc bombing.



The attack targetted leftist youth organizations who had gathered July 20 in the town near the Syrian border for a campaign to rebuild Kobani, a Syrian town liberated from Daesh by Syrian Kurdish forces. 



"He needs to know his position," Erdogan said. "To voice imputations like this, to a president that only has worked for his country's peace and prosperity, is just an attempt to remove the black clouds above him."



Erdogan also told reporters that he held Demirtas responsible for the Oct. 2014 Kobani demonstrations.



The protests saw Pro-Kurdish demonstrators take to the streets across Turkey claiming that the government was doing nothing to halt the advance of extremists pouring into the Turkish-Syrian border town of Kobani.



A total of 50 people were killed.



He also underlined what he considered Demirtas' failure to label the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party a "terrorist group" - unlike the United States and European Union, who recognize it as such. - Pekin