A day prior to the operation, all Turkish opposition parties except the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) voted to extend the mandate for the Turkish occupation of northern Syria. Opposition party leaders Meral Akşener (İyi Party), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (Republican People's Party), and Temel Karamollaoğlu (Felicity Party), as well as the junior government partner, Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahçeli, expressed their support for the military operation.[1] Akşener, Kılıçdaroğlu, and Bahçeli were directly informed of the operation by Turkish President Recep Erdoğan immediately after its launch.[2] On 14 October, Turkish Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar visited the opposition parties and informed them about the ongoing operation.[3]