CHP's justice march 'not national', PM Yıldırım says

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has once again slammed the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's 350-km "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul, describing it as a "non-national march". 

"The leader of the main opposition party has begun to walk. But a march that is being loudly applauded by FETÖ and separatists is not a national march. Our march is for our people, for the future and for stability," Yıldırım said at a public rally in the eastern province of Erzurum on June 26. 

"Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, you should give up. You can go nowhere with separatists and FETÖ but a dead-end street," he added. 

Kılıçdaroğlu launched his march from Ankara to Istanbul after a court jailed Istanbul deputy Enis Berberoğlu, with prosecutors demanding a 25-year sentence on espionage charges. 

AKP chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Yıldırım and other senior AKP officials claim that Kılıçdaroğlu's march "serves the interests of the FETÖ," referring to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, an ally-turned-nemesis of the government.

"Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, come and walk with us instead. Come and walk with the people. That would give you a future [in politics]," Yıldırım said, also vowing that his government's "fight against FETÖ will continue without any halt."

"We will be in unity. We will not allow anybody to break this unity through artificial agendas. We know terror organizations are working inside and outside the country to cancel Turkey's achievements. They have used FETÖ as a means and are still using it to this end," he added.