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Main opposition CHP head urges party to resist ‘provocations’ | ||
2016-11-02 | ||
Attacks targeting the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) will increase and the party must be careful to resist “provocations,” CHP head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, after a senior party official was shot in the leg on Oct. 29. “My deputy chair, Bülent Tezcan, was injured by a bullet. Provocations against the CHP will increase … We have to be very careful about provocations targeting us. We have to be prudent and cautious,” Kılıçdaroğlu said on Nov. 1 in a speech to his party group in parliament.
“A bullet has also been thrown at me during a martyr’s funeral, and one of my deputy chairs has been injured by a bullet. If a price has to be paid, it will be me who first pays that price,” Kılıçdaroğlu said. More armed groups could appear in the post-July 15 coup attempt process, he also warned, slamming the government for imposing a “regime of chaos in the country.” “Could there possibly be a state like this?” he added, repeating his earlier claim that the attack on Tezcan was a well-planned act. “It was a planned attack and I am curious about the will behind it,” he said. “They said [he was] a nationalist. But nationalists are patriots: They love their flag and they love their country. Those who act on someone else’s command and shoot someone cannot be a person of an ideal. They are prone to being exploited,” Kılıçdaroğlu added. Tezcan was shot in his foot on Oct. 29 while he was in a restaurant in the Aegean province of Aydın. The perpetrator of the act, identified as Alparslan Sargın, was caught by police shortly after the attack.
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