Turkey's president has slammed the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) for his allegations about the bombing in Turkey's southeast that claimed 32 lives. "These statements are vulgar. I want to express that the presidency is a very high position and should not to be dishonored like this," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters at a Turkey-China business forum during a state visit to Beijing on Thursday.Erdoğan stated that Demirtaş was the main figure responsible for the deaths of 50 people on October 6-7-8 incidents when he called people to take to the streets, which turned into street violence. "Unfortunately, he has hidden behind the shield of political immunity and has brought this process to this point, casting a shadow on it" Erdoğan said, condemning the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) hesitance to distance itself from the PKK and terrorism. The Turkish President noted that Demirtaş's brother is a PKK terrorist who is still in the mountain and said that Demirtaş would also run to the mountains to join the terrorists if he had the opportunity. On July 28, Selahattin Demirtaş blamed President Erdoğan on the Suruç bombing. The attack targetted leftist youth organizations who had gathered in the southeastern town for a campaign to rebuild Kobani, the Syrian town liberated from ISIS by Syrian Kurdish forces. "He needs to know his position," Erdoğan said. "To voice imputations like this, to a president that only has worked for his country's peace and prosperity, is just an attempt to remove the black clouds above him." An explosion took the lives of at least 28 people and injured 100 more on July 20 in Suruç (across the border with Kobani) district of Turkey's southeastern province of Şanlıurfa.