Opposition says Turkish foreign policy has left it isolated


  • World
  • Monday, 01 Jun 2015

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu gestures in a bus as he leaves an election rally for Turkey's June 7 parliamentary election, in Ankara, Turkey, May 31, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has lost control of its borders by opening them to Syrian refugees and been isolated on the world stage by meddling in the affairs of its neighbours, its main opposition leader said in an interview.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), said Turkey's support for what he described as radical opposition groups in Syria had broken a tradition of neutrality and left Turkey exposed.

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