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has implied that an ongoing probe into espionage and the leaking of secret state documents to media outlets can also reach main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu, as one of his deputies is already behind bars in the same case.
"The leader of the main opposition is obviously trying to muddy the waters over concerns that charges which led to the imprisonment of one of his politicians may reach him as well. Don’t get surprised if Kilicdaroglu’s link on the issue related to the incarcerated
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politician is revealed," Erdogan said at a Justice and Development Party (AKP) meeting in the southern province of Antalya on Aug. 13.
"I hear different news coming from prison. ’I will speak if I am not freed,’ the imprisoned person says," Erdogan added, referring to CHP Istanbul Deputy Enis Berberoglu, who has been in jail since mid-June.
Berberoglu was sentenced to 25 years for leaking confidential state documents to the media that allegedly revealed the National Intelligence Organization’s (MIT) shipment of weapons to groups fighting in Syria.
Some pro-government media outlets reported that Kilicdaroglu provided the documents to Berberoglu after obtaining them from members of the Gulen network.
Kilicdaroglu launched a historic "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul after Berberoglu’s arrest in a bid to stress on growing judicial problems in
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. But for Erdogan, the march was solely an action taken by Kilicdaroglu to create a mess in the country. "His purpose was nothing to do with justice but to create a mess," he said.