Turkey opposition chief accuses government of inaction on violence in Kurdish areas

Ankara:  Selahattin Demirtas, head of the pro-Kurdish Peoples` Democratic Party (HDP), accused the government on Wednesday of deliberate inaction amid growing violence in the largely Kurdish southeast.

Three people died in clashes in the southeast`s biggest city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday after an Islamist aid group leader was shot and killed. The violence comes just days after a historic election ushered the HDP into parliament and deprived the ruling AK Party of a majority to form a government.

"The prime minister and president are nowhere to be seen. You would think they are waiting to allow the country to slip into civil war so that they can say, `Look at how valuable the AKP is,`" Demirtas told reporters in comments broadcast live.