Turkey government ‘manufactures’ enemies, opposition tells AFP

A senior leader of Turkey’s beleaguered main opposition party accused the government of fabricating enemies in a politically motivated crackdown to reassert control after its election defeat last year, in an interview with AFP.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party “politically named the new enemy on March 19 — (and) the new enemy is the CHP,” said Burhanettin Bulut, a deputy leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP).

Bulut, in charge of the party’s public relations and media, said…