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Main opposition CHP slams AKP for declaring ‘indefinite’ state of emergency
[Hurriyet Daily News] The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has criticized President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for announcing on May 21 that the state of emergency will remain in place "until peace is fully provided." "At first you said you were introducing the state of emergency for just one month. It’s been 10 months now. You say ’It will continue until comfort prevails [in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ].’ But the state of emergency has cut off the country’s veins of democracy. Democracy is bleeding," CHP Deputy Group Chair Özgur Özel said in a presser on May 22. Özel was speaking after the AKP’s extraordinary convention on May 21, in which Erdogan returned to the party and was once again elected as its chairman. "People in the country are almost unable to breathe because of the lack of democracy, injustice, inequalities and mistreatment. Under these circumstances, the only person who feels himself safe, happy and calm is President Erdogan," Özel said. The Turkish government declared a state of emergency on July 21, 2016, just days after the failed coup attempt, believed to have been criminal masterminded by followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... . Posted by: Fred 2017-05-23 |
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