PM, President attack HDP on claims of supporting ISIL

The prime minister and the president offices have taken aggressive stances in their remarks refusing charges of neglect in the face of potential threats posed by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as both offices attacked the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for its belief in the government's tacit support of ISIL militants.

"I'm calling on those who attempt to score political goals through the very young while their ties with terrorist organizations are obvious. It is enough now that you have contaminated politics with blood," Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, the leader of the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP), said late July 21.

"There is no cooperation with terror, arms and murder gangs in the AKP's history," Davuto?lu said on his Twitter account shortly before midnight.

Earlier on July 21, delivering a speech in front of the culture center in the Suruç border town of ?anl?urfa where a suicide bombing killed at least 32 people, HDP's co-chair Selahattin Demirta? had bitterly criticized both Davuto?lu's government and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for turning a blind eye to activities of ISIL.

The blast on July 20 tore through a group of university-aged students from an activist group as they gathered before a planned trip to help rebuild the nearby Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane. 

"Thirty-two young people were torn to pieces, yet the president does not bother to cancel his trip to Cyprus. The president has virtually declared the HDP a 'terrorist organization.' Yet he has nothing to say against ISIL.

No operations, no detainments, no arrests," Demirta? said, recalling that on the day of the attack, Erdo?an went ahead with his scheduled official visit to Turkish Cyprus. 
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