Debate over CHP's 'justice march' escalates

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP)'s "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul is continuing amid an escalating war of words between party chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the government, with Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım blasting the march as "non-national."

"The leader of the main opposition party has begun to walk. But a march that is being loudly applauded by FETÖ [Fethullahist Terrorist Organization] and separatists is not a national march. Our march is for our people, for the future and for stability," Yıldırım said at a public rally in the eastern province of Erzurum on June 26. 

"Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, you should give up. You can go nowhere with separatists and FETÖ but a dead-end street," he added. 

Kılıçdaroğlu launched the march from Ankara to Istanbul after a court jailed Istanbul deputy Enis Berberoğlu, with prosecutors demanding a 25-year sentence on espionage charges. 

"Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu, come and walk with us instead. Come and walk with the people. That would give you a future [in politics]," Yıldırım said, also vowing that his government's "fight against FETÖ will continue without any halt."

"We will be in unity. We will not allow anybody to break this unity through artificial agendas. We know terror organizations are working inside and outside the country to cancel Turkey's achievements. They have used FETÖ as a means and are still using it to this end," he added.

CHP MP 'arrested on gov't order' 

Meanwhile, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that deputy Enis Berberoğlu was arrested on the order of the government, describing the arrest "as the most concrete evidence" of judicial interference by the executive power in Turkey. 

"We heard something...