CHP blames flawed foreign policy of gov't for leading to terrorist threats

The Republican People?s Party (CHP) has pointed the finger at the incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP) government for its myopic foreign policy that has ultimately put Turkey in the midst of terrorist threats spread by various radical groups, making it a ?new Peshawar.?

?We have constantly noted the failures in Turkey?s foreign policy choices in the face of the civil war in Syria,? CHP Deputy Chair Haluk Koç said at a press conference on July 21, a day after dozens of people were massacred in a devastating suicide bombing on the border with Syria, which was blamed on militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

In remarks delivered after a meeting of the CHP?s Central Executive Board (MYK), chaired by party leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, Koç said the party has, in the meantime, offered alternative policies while publicly elaborating on the risks of the government?s policies.

?Turkey has looked on [as it has become a] new Peshawar as radical groups have been encouraged and are running wild. Now, we are passing through days which prove the saying ?Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind? correct,? he said.

?It is open that Turkey?s approach to these conflicts, which started on a sectarian basis and afterwards adopted an ethnic dimension too, has been far from being constructive and has made this process very dangerous,? Koç said.

The blast on July 20 tore through a group of university students from the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations as they gathered in the border town of Suruç in ?anl?urfa province ahead of a planned trip to help rebuild the nearby Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane. 

Also on July 21, during a trip to ?anl?urfa where he visited people wounded in the attack, Prime Minister...