Previously, Erdogan had been resisting meeting with the pro-Kurdish party because of its refusal to denounce the PKK as a terrorist organisation, as it is considered by Turkey, the EU and the United States.
Erdogan se ranije opirao sastanku s tom prokurdskom strankom zbog njezina odbijanja da osudi PKK kao terorističku organizaciju kakvom je smatraju Turska, EU i Sjedinjene Američke Države.