Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has announced as to November 1 elections that he doesn't find crowded, mass meetings necessary any more.
Demirtaş visited condolence tent pitched for Kübra Meltem, who lost her life in Ankara massacre, in Fikirtepe neighbourhood of Kadıköy district in İstanbul.
Demiraş said to journalists in his statement following his visit:
"How can we hold a meeting within such painful atmosphere? We will provide our own security, we don't have any serious concerns about that. Life of a single person is much more important than our election victory and meetings.
"Our party's Central Executive Board will convene to discuss the matter in 1-2 days. I don't find mass meetings necessary from now on. We also would like to hold chirpy election campaigns with music, but conditions for this are now absent. It is not possible nor right to carry out that within this painful atmosphere." (AS/TK)
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