Turkey is now in trouble on Syria, says CHP leader

ISTANBUL - Anatolia News Agency

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Main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu recently criticized the government's stance on Syria, saying Turkey is now "a country in trouble."

"We do not want our people to pay the price for Western interests," Kılıçdaroğlu said. "We do not want Turkey to be dragged into the swamp."

"In summary, we do not want war," he added.

Kılıçdaroğlu likened the AKP's stance to "shooting someone else's bird with someone else's gun."

 "This is the powerful treating you like a property entitlement official in the process of redesigning Syria after it breaks apart," Kılıçdaroğlu said.

"We were supposed to be the game-maker in the area, we ended up being played. We tried to warn them on the consequences of sectarian fighting in Syria, we were expelled for doing so."

"I wonder if the AKP is now thinking of gathering their thoughts?" Kılıçdaroğlu said. "Turkey does not deserve to be a proxy country."