Turkish PM, opposition leader exchange hard criticism

The prime minister lends support to opposition dissident, as CHP leader says Turkey in not ruled with reason Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu exchanged hard criticism on each other as both leaders announced their part squads in separate cities. 

Davutoğlu, who headed the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) consultancy and evaluation meeting in the western province of Afyon on Nov. 1, mocked with the recent resignation by lawmaker Emine Ülke Tarhan from her Republican People’s Party (CHP). 

Tarhan, a leading party dissident, resigned from the CHP on Oct. 31, issuing a statement severely criticizing CHP policies that she said were “detached” from the people and not helping the party come to power. 

“It is understood that the CHP administration will insist on its understanding of being the opposition, which is detached from our people’s sensitivities, with irresponsible calls, inconsistent rhetoric ... and uncertain policies,” Tarhan said, adding that she noticed the party would not change its “fatal choices.”

Reading a part of the statement to his party members, Davutoğlu said he fully agreed. 

“I would put my signature under this,” he said. 

He also criticized the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) for taking an irresponsible stance with calls for street action, mainly for Kobane, the Syrian border town resisting against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attacks.  

The CHP leader, for his side, criticized on the sidelines of a party camp with deputies in the Mediterranean province of Antalya that the government was carrying non-transparent talks with Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader...