Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan follows the same policies as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said at his party meeting in Ankara, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

“The policies that [Erdoğan] follows serve the al-Qaeda militants and the PKK terror organizations’ objectives in Syria,” Kılıçdaroğlu said. “Erdoğan does in Turkey what al-Assad does in his country. He limits freedom, censors the media, gives orders to the judiciary, puts opponents in prison, and uses the security forces against the public. Al-Assad and Erdoğan are carbon copies,” he said.