Alwaght- The Turkish opposition parties slammed the recent moves of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan including the deal between Turkey and Israeli Regime.
The country's opposition groups harshly slammed normalizing ties with Israeli Regime and also President Erdogan's letter of condolences to Russia over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey, according to Daily Sabah newspaper.
Speaking at a meeting in Ankara, The chairman of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said the agreement signed between Turkey and Israel Regime is a submission agreement for Turkey and it ended in Israeli Regime's favor.
He asked, “How can you sign such a deal?... Are you with your country, with justice or with those Israeli soldiers who killed [Turkish citizens]?”
“Turkey faced an action [by Israeli Regime, which was] suitable for a pirate state,” he added, expressing further wonder at the rapprochement.
CHP’s chairman also said that Israelis did not make an official apology yet, and should make a written apology to Turkey.
Figen Yuksekdag, the co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), also said the most crucial item of the deal with Israel was selling “Palestinian” natural gas to Europe.
“They are making a deal to market what belongs to orphan children in Palestine,” she said. “They are selling the words that they call ‘sacred’ at another bargaining table.”
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head, Devlet Bahceli, meanwhile, said the deal sharply contrasted Erdogan’s stiff criticism of Israeli aggression in the past.
“The president had repeatedly accused Israel of being a terror state. Israel was killing Gazan children on beaches. Erdogan was rightfully criticizing this heavily. He said Israel even surpassed Hitler in barbarism,” he said. “This means that the government has been meeting with Israel for years secretly and we were not aware of this.”
Expressing their anger over Erdogan's letter of condolences to Russia over the Sukhoi SU-24 downing, opposition groups stated: “Who are you to apologize? If you are to represent the Turkish Republic, then do it in a proper way,” “You cannot represent the Turkish Republic. You don’t have the power or capability for this.”
“Who breached our border? The Russians. Who set the rules of engagement? We did it, and we declared it to the whole world.”
On Monday, Israel and Turkey announced they would normalize ties after a six-year rupture caused by the killing of Gaza-bound Turkish activists by Israeli forces.
Hours after the announcement, Moscow said the Turkish head of state had “apologized” to Russian President Vladimir Putin in a letter over the shooting down of a Russian aircraft near the Syrian border back in November 2015.
