Turkish opposition condemns government for pressuring students

Turkey's opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) condemns the country's government for pressuring students,

Hürriyet Daily News reports.

The recent pressure on university students led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other members of the cabinet amounts to a “criminalization” of students, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is quoted as saying by the news agency .

“Can a prime minister put all students staying in private houses under suspicion? Can he create an environment in which all parents will suspect their children?” Kılıçdaroğlu told the daily Hürriyet yesterday.

“Soon they will pass a law, then they will raid student houses and arrest them as ‘terrorists.’ They will criminalize the students. These are not things done by healthy minds, it is not the state’s job to violate private life,” the CHP leader said.