CHP's Baykal: "Silivri shouldn't become the AK Party's Guantanamo"

Speaking at his parliamentary group meeting, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal yesterday charged that the ongoing Ergenekon probe amounted to a legal lynching, saying, "US President Barack Obama declared that Guantanamo prison would be closed. The Silivri courtroom, where the Ergenekon trial is being held, shouldn't be allowed to become the Guantanamo of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party)." Baykal added that the Ergenekon probe is violating the rule that investigations be kept confidential. In related news, speaking at his parliamentary group meeting, opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli criticized the stands of both Baykal and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the probe.