CHP positive, MHP, HDP rebuff Davuto?lu's call for joint declaration against terror

With strictly different reasons, both the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) have refused a call by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to sign a joint declaration against terrorism in the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack by a suspected militant of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which killed at least 32 people, mostly young students, in an attack on a Turkish town near the Syrian border on July 20.

Yet, the Republican People?s Party (CHP) has signaled a positive approach to the call by Davuto?lu, with its leader underlining a need to take pains in order to discourage terrorist groups. 

?We will sign it if signing a joint declaration will make a contribution to resolving the problem. Why wouldn?t we sign? The entire issue is about revealing the incident with its all details and convicting those who perpetrated these terrorist attacks. Only this way, can we display a joint stance. The government should display its will within this framework,? said CHP leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, in remarks published in daily Habertürk on July 21. 

The killing of a Turkish soldier on July 20 in a gun attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) in eastern Turkey showed how the outlawed group had solidified its capacity, while also displaying how the government-led peace process is ?a lie,? MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli, meanwhile, said in a written statement released late on July 20, in which he called the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF), whose members were killed in the attack in the town of Suruç in southern ?anl?urfa province, ?a front formation.?
?Some civil society organizations which took sides with separatism along with ?terror branch? parties such as the HDP and the ESP ...