Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has said Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is taking part in a slander campaign against Turkey and poses a threat to national security as he sides with the groups targeting the country.
Underlining that the CHP leader does not shy away from allying and cooperating with bodies against the Turkish nation, its president and government, Bozdağ told Anadolu Agency's Editor's Desk yesterday, "Kılıçdaroğlu has become a threat to national security," and pointed out that his actions are unacceptable.
"There is a huge campaign of slander against Turkey; the Gülenist Terror Group [FETÖ] and its U.S. sympathizers in the New York leg, and the CHP in the Turkey leg," Bozdağ said. He also criticized the main opposition party's chair for failing to prove his recent claims of money transactions worth millions of dollars made by people close to the president.
Meanwhile, Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation on main opposition CHP Chairman Kılıçdaroğlu's foreign transaction allegations on President Erdoğan, demanding the party to provide all documents.
During his party's parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, the CHP leader revealed alleged documentation claiming that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's relatives "sent millions of dollars to a foreign company on an island."
Referring to the allegations, President Erdoğan said the claims were not true and if proven he would resign and leave politics. Following Kılıçdaroğlu's statements, Justice and Development Party (AK Party) officials reiterated that he needs to give the documents to prosecutors in order to shed light on the issue, but CHP party officials have not handed in the documents yet.
Bozdağ stressed that the documents were fake and added that Kılıçdaroğlu needs to take responsibility to prove his allegations. He said the CHP chair should announce the sources that provided the alleged documents to him.
Commenting on the statements from the CHP that the documents should be examined by Parliament, Bozdağ said the CHP chair is blinded by hate as he does not even question "the truth of the allegations, which target the president" before sharing them. Deputy Prime Minister Bozdağ added that the judicial process will be launched in relation to the issue.
Bozdağ contended that the CHP chair uses the same rhetoric as the West regarding press freedom and other issues. He reminded people that when Germany warned its citizens that "it is not safe to travel to Turkey," Kılıçdaroğlu immediately followed the same discourse and make statements in line with that. Bozdağ added that when Turkey faced unjust allegations from some international sections that "it provided support to Daesh," it was again the CHP that used these allegations most in Turkish politics.
