Turkish opposition leader condemns Muslim ban

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of Turkey's secular Republican People's Party (CHP), has become the first leading Turkish politician to openly criticise Donald Trump's ban on refugees and Muslim migrants.

CHP, mülteci üreten savaş politikalarının karşısında, göçmenlerin ve mültecilerin haklarını savunan milyonların yanındadır. pic.twitter.com/o2IBfe0PCQ
— Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (@kilicdarogluk) January 29, 2017

Kilicdaroglu, who belongs Turkey's minority Alevi Muslim community, said in a statement released on Twitter "the CHP is against warring policies that create refugees and stands by the millions defending the rights of migrants and refugees."