CHP's Baykal: "The AKP's Alevi outreach is a ploy"

At a ceremony in Istanbul's Kadikoy district, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal yesterday charged that the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) recent outreach to Alevis is an insincere ploy. Stating that the Alevis' problems can be solved by enacting long-neglected CHP proposals, Baykal said, "The only way to make these proposals a reality is to bring the CHP to power." Baykal also criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's approach to the world economic crisis.