Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of inciting a civil war, hours after threatening to threaten the president.
“You literally started shouting slogans of civil war,” Kilicdaroglu wrote on Twitter this morning.
“This nation will not accept it. “There will be no bloodshed in the streets so that you and your people can live in palaces,” he added.
Erdogan had threatened to teach his opponents a lesson yesterday, Tuesday, and “chase them wherever they go” in the event of protests, citing clashes that broke out during the failed 2016 coup attempt.
“Just as this nation taught a lesson to those who took to the streets on July 15, so will you take exactly the same lesson,” Erdogan said on television.
On the night of July 15, 2016, the military attempted a coup against the Erdogan government. Erdogan called on the people to resist the coup by taking to the streets. More than 250 people were killed and thousands injured before the coup was called off.
Amid the Turkish pound crisis and high inflation, the CHP and other opposition parties are calling for early elections.
Erdogan’s Islamist conservative party and its supranationalist allies insist elections will be held as scheduled in 2023.
Early elections can be called either by the president or by a three-fifths vote of parliament.
The CHP is the second largest party in the Turkish parliament and, according to the latest polls, the strongest opponent of Erdogan.
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