The communication director to the Turkish President Fahrettin Altun defended the indictment and alleged the organizational ties between the HDP and the PKK and that the PKK is a designated terrorist organization by several countries.[1] Devlet Bahçeli criticized the return of the indictment to the Court of Cassation, requesting a closure of the Constitutional Court while also demanding the state prosecutor to rectify the deficiencies in order enable to closure of the HDP.[30] Politicians of the HDP alleged that the party can not just be shut down, the party is not only a party, but also an idea which would endure an eventual closure of the party.[3] Making reference to the revelations about government corruption by crime boss Sedat Peker, the HDP accused the AKP of wanting to "update its power" with the closure case.[4] The same day as the Constitutional Court accepted the second indictment, HDP co-chair Mithat Sancar lamented that the court accepted it despite the attack on the HDP headquarters in Izmir in which Deniz Poyraz was murdered and accused the MHP and the AKP to have campaigned for months for their closure stating "They made statements on various platforms, portraying the HDP as an enemy".[31]