Posted: Jun 18, 2017 12:18 pm
There is a Moses for every pharaoh, main opposition CHP head tells Erdoğan
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has blasted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks on the party’s “justice march” from Ankara to Istanbul, saying “there is a Moses for every pharaoh” after Erdoğan suggested legal action against the march.
“They want to threaten us with the judiciary, calling on judges and prosecutors. We know very well what coup plotters have done in this country. We know what they all did in the 1970s, 80s, and in 2017 ... Now they criticize so much but they cannot say: ‘We have justice in our country. Why are you walking?’ Because they know very well that there is no justice,” Kılıçdaroğlu told reporters in the Kahramankazan district of Ankara, setting out on the fourth day of his march on June 18.
“I previously asked a question to the July 20 coup plotter [Erdoğan]. I asked: ‘What does the concept of honor remind you of? What significance does that concept have for you?’ The question I asked was very easy and ordinary, but somehow he cannot answer this question. Tell us and we can learn. But he has not given any answer. I want to remind him of the fact that there is a Moses for every pharaoh. He should never forget that,” he said.
Speaking at a general session of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) on June 17, Erdoğan had said the CHP risked being an “element of oppression” and pointed to the possibility of future legal proceedings.