CHP SUPPORTS GOVERNMENT’S MEASURES AGAINST FRANCE
Today’s Zaman
Dec 23 2011
Turkey
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kýlýcdaroðlu, who
visited Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoðan on Thursday, said his
party was ready to support the government’s plans to impose measures
against France, which on Thursday adopted a resolution to criminalize
denying that the 1915 deportation of Ottoman Armenians is tantamount
to genocide.
Kýlýcdaroðlu visited Erdoðan at the Justice and Development Party
(AK Party) headquarters on Thursday night to wish him well following
a surgical operation Erdoðan underwent two weeks ago. The CHP leader
also expressed his party’s full support for a series of measures the
government plans to take against France, whose government has been
displaying an increasingly anti-Turkish stance over the past few
months. AK Party Deputy Chairman Omer Celik and Secretary-General
Haluk Ýpek were also in attendance during this meeting.
On Friday, Kýlýcdaroðlu reiterated his support for the government’s
policies regarding France. Speaking at a ceremony to commemorate
Mehmet Fehmi Kubilay, a soldier and teacher who was killed 81 years
ago in Menemen, Ýzmir, by a mob opposing the republican reforms —
Kýlýcdaroðlu said that “France will be crushed under this burden.” He
said the resolution was a dark stain on the democratic traditions
of France. “France should rid itself of this shame,” he said at the
ceremony held in Menemen.
He recalled his meeting with the prime minister, saying that the
CHP was ready to lend its complete support to the government’s fight
against the French law.
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