President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan said if the parliament approves re-introduction of the death penalty, he would definitely ratify it.

His remark came during a rally of his supporters on Sunday, Milliyet reported.

Erdogan invited the representatives of opposition parties to the rally, among them Nationalist Movement Party, Republican People's Party and even leader of Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party Selahattin Demirtas.