CHP needs to be careful regarding statements on coup attempt: Turkish PM
ANKARA
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has criticized the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) over the latter’s remarks regarding victimizations since the failed July 15 coup attempt, complaining that the CHP emphasizes the government’s post-coup attempt measures more than it mentions the thwarted military coup.“The main opposition party needs to be careful. It has for a while been skipping over the misfortune that our country went through on July 15. They are confusing people by focusing on [post-coup attempt] victimizations day and night,” Yıldırım said in the weekly parliamentary group meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara on Oct. 11.
“The actual victims of July 15 are the families of the martyrs and the veterans. The victims are children of this country, whose futures were threatened by the coup attempt. If you ignore all of this and keep talking about the 1 percent that have been dismissed since then, this has nothing to do with goodwill or good intentions,” he added.
Yıldırım claimed that the CHP’s emphasis “intentionally or non-intentionally” supported the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), believed to have been behind the coup attempt.
“The actual victims of July 15 are the families of the martyrs and the veterans. The victims are children of this country, whose futures were threatened by the coup attempt. If you ignore all of this and keep talking about the 1 percent that have been dismissed since then, this has nothing to do with goodwill or good intentions,” he added.
Yıldırım claimed that the CHP’s emphasis “intentionally or non-intentionally” supported the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), believed to have been behind the coup attempt.
