HDP cancels ‘diplomatic program’ in Cape Town after Gaziantep attack

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A Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) delegation led by one of the party’s co-chairs has cancelled a diplomatic program in South Africa following a massive attack on a wedding of a party member in southeastern Turkey.

A delegation for the HDP, which is focused on the Kurdish issue, was originally set to travel to Cape Town in order to pursue “a series of diplomatic contacts.”

“Because of the massacre that took place in Antep, our delegation led by our co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and composed of our deputies Ms. Bedia Özgökçe and Mr. Osman Baydemir, cancelled their program,” the HDP Press Office announced early on the morning of Aug. 21, hours after a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives among people dancing on the street at a wedding party in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep, killing at least 50 people.