[5] Several left wing parties like the Socialist Refoundation Party (SYKP) blamed the alliance of the AKP and the MHP for the hostile environment in which the HDP has found itself.[22] The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, [23]Meral Akşener of the Good Party (IYI), Kemal Kilıcdaroğlu of the Republican People's Party (CHP), and the former prominent AKP politician and current president of the Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) Ali Babacan all condemned the attack.[24]