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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkey would not be facing its current situation if the peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers' Party would not have ended, according to imprisoned Kurdish HDP member Idris Baluken."The negative outlook being experienced today in the country in all areas, chiefly social peace, domestic politics, foreign politics and the economy, had its outset in the ending of the solution process," Baluken told Cumhuriyet in a wide-ranging interview published on Sunday.His party’s former parliamentary bloc head was referring to HDP-mediated peace talks between the PKK and Turkish government. They began in 2013, but stalled in 2015."On ending the process, the AKP started its famous amok run that demolished social life in every field," said Baluken who is from Diyarbakir.He described the Justice and Development Party domination the political landscape as a "mad murderous run."Baluken, 41, was jailed in early November 2016 when Turkish officials arrested eight high-ranking HDP politicians after the parliament voted earlier in the year to lift parliamentary immunity from a select group of MPs, many of whom have been accused by the AKP of having ties to the PKK.Even before recent sanctions and tariffs imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump on Ankara, the lira was at a four-year low compared to the dollar."Under such circumstances, the country neither appears governable nor the prevailing conditions sustainable," argued Baluken.The HDP was not allowed to participate in drafting Ankara's response to US sanctions and tariffs.HDP has condemned the "unlawful detentions" of its MPs as politically motivated."To put an end to this entire negative spectacle, the thing that is more important than getting us out of jail is for a fresh page to be opened and this mad run ended for the good of the country," he added.The HDP won 67 seats despite its presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas campaigning from jail.Baluken was forbidden from standing for parliament in June's snap elections because of a nine year and two month prison sentence for "terrorist propaganda" and "breach of the law on meetings and protest marches."Responding to the annulment of his candidacy, Baluken said: "I see it as being an entirely political decision..."There is no other explanation for the legal monstrosity of a court file being brought to finality in one day by the appeal court using copy and paste methods."