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 prethodno opirao sastanku sa tom prokurdskom strankom zbog njenog odbijanja da osudi PKK kao terorističku organizaciju kakvom je smatraju Turska, EU i Sjedinjene Države.