Turkey's pro-kurdish party opposes military operation in Syria The new co-chairs of Turkey's third largest political group the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) meet in Istanbul. The HDP has regularly accused the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of "authoritarianism", many of its MPs and members have been detained, and it opposes Turkey's current offensive against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in northern Syria. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES