Bahçeli's Demirtaş fear underlies his pardon proposals
 

President Erdoğan has said that "It is not on the government's agenda" with reference to his alliance partner's overtures regarding a pardon. Bahçeli, in turn, is standing his ground despite Erdoğan's remarks: "We have brought it onto the people's agenda." It is alleged in the corridors that Bahçeli is voicing the demand for a pardon "whose boundaries he sets," especially in view of the possibilit