AKP says incidents in CHP internal issue of main opposition party
The spokesman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has described recent developments at the Republican People’s Party (CHP) as an internal matter of the main opposition party and rejected all accusations targeting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“Our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is our red line. We won’t let anyone to violate this,” AKP Spokesman Ömer Çelik told a press conference on May 25 in southern province of Adana, in a first reaction from the ruling party after a court reinstated Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as the chairman of the CHP, denying Özgür Özel’s leadership.
“We have nothing to do with this process. The judicial process was launched after some leading CHP members accused other CHP members of fraud in the CHP congress,” Çelik stated.
The ruling party is always supporting the right to protest but insults and blasphemy targeting Erdoğan is unacceptable and those who committed these will be brought to trial, the spokesman stressed.
