By Diyar Guldogan
ANKARA
Turkey's opposition Nationalist Movement Party, or MHP, slammed a call made by a pro-Kurdish opposition party for holding street demonstrations on Saturday.
Earlier on Wednesday, the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party issued a call for a global demonstration in support of Kobani, the Syrian border town currently under siege by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
This latest call follows a similar one issued by the same party earlier this month, which triggered nationwide illegal demonstrations and clashes across Turkey and left at least 38 people and two policemen dead.
The fatal clashes also caused financial damages in several provinces where government buildings, vehicles and even Red Crescent vans were set ablaze.
The MHP's deputy group chairman Yusuf Halacoglu accused the government of making concession until the parliamentary elections and claimed the Kurdish party would prompt a revolt in a bid to gain further concession.
"I do not condemn those, who are calling for revolt, instead I condemn the government," Halacoglu told the Anadolu Agency.
Turkey's Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, also criticized the call on Friday by saying: "It means no lessons have been learnt from the incidents."
The deadly pro-Kurdish protests erupted during the Eid al-Adha holiday, only one day after ISIL militants entered parts of Kobani, also known as Ayn Al-Arab, on October 6.
The protesters accused the Turkish government of doing nothing to halt the advance of the extremists into the border town, which has become the scene of fierce street battles between Kurdish groups and ISIL militants.
Turkey has recently allowed the passage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces through Turkey to reach the battle-torn town.
Halacoglu and his party have demanded a general debate in parliament, claiming the Turkish constitution was breached with the crossing of Kurdish peshmerga forces into Kobani via Turkey's lands.
The MHP said the government helped a terrorist organization in another country.
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