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Opposition parties announc their stance against the military coup

16 July 2016 00:54 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The two opposition parties have announced their stance against the military coup, APA reports.

“This country had suffered a lot from the coups. We do not these difficulties be repeated,” Kemal KÄ±lÄ±çdaroÄŸlu, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) said in a written statement. He stressed that the CHP will protect the Republic and democracy, saying “It should be known that the CHP fully depends on the free will of the people as indispensable of our parliamentary democracy.” Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli phoned to Prime Minister Binali YÄ±ldÄ±rÄ±m after news broke, expressing his party’s support to the democracy and free will of the people.

Abdullah Gul, a former president, called into the Turkish television station NTV on Friday and, speaking by video chat, called on the military to stand down.

“To avoid causing more distress and sadness to the citizens of this country, I am telling those who’ve made this attempt to give up immediately,” he said.