ANKARA
Turkey’s main opposition party CHP’s leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has called on Turkish prosecutors to file an investigation against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kilicdaroglu’s accusations of corruption against the Prime Minister, who dismisses them as false, are in reference to December’s graft probe that targeted Erdogan’s allies.
Kilicdaroglu said Tuesday it was public prosecutors’ duty to "rid the politics of filth and we are waiting for prosecutors who are honest and responsible to act."
Turkey's top political leaders deliver weekly speeches on Tuesday to their party members in the parliament.
The CHP leader also criticized a recently approved law on Turkey’s top intelligence agency and said his party would appeal against it to the Constitutional Court.
President Abdullah Gul signed into law on Friday a bill that grants broader powers to the country's top intelligence agency, MIT.
On the approaching May 1 Workers’ Day, Kilicdaroglu said he hoped celebrations would be free of violence.
Turkey’s second opposition nationalist MHP’s leader, Devlet Bahceli, criticized Erdogan during his address on Tuesday for issuing unprecedented condolences to the relatives of Armenians who died during the incidents of 1915.
“Mr Erdogan gives gratuitous concessions while we still grieve over our own pain,” Bahceli said.
For the May Day festival, the MHP leader said the day should be celebrated as a “day of solidarity .”
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