ANKARA
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has announced it would not abstain from taking part in a caretaker government ahead of expected early elections.
Addressing the media in capital Ankara on Tuesday, party spokesman Ayhan Bilgen said: "We state that we will not shy away from an election government and we will surely take responsibility to allow Turkey to go to the polls under a secure atmosphere."
His remarks came after Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahcelli said on Monday that they would not support any coalition government or short-term reform government or minority government or early election.
Bilgen highlighted the importance for building peace and called on all political parties to take responsibility for providing a "democratic and peaceful" environment in Turkey.
About HDP allowing its members to become part of an interim set up, he said that the party would allow it, saying: "Yes, quite clearly."
"If the prime minister returns the mandate [to president] this evening and the president asks the second party [to form a government], we will be open to every offer that the CHP will make us within five days, until August 23," Bilgen said.
