Baykal: Turkey not signed such deal for 80 years

Baykal said that nobody had provided loan in return for political imposition in the history of Turkish Republic.

Addressing his party’s Fifth Regular Provincial Congress, Baykal said that the loan agreement was signed with the United States "after long discussions."

Stating that he did not see the agreement, Baykal asked if he had the right to see that agreement as the leader of the main opposition party.

Baykal noted that the government should unveil the agreement and asked why it wasn’t doing so.

Noting that under the agreement, Turkey committed that it would not send soldiers to north of Iraq even if conditions necessitated dispatch of soldiers, Baykal stressed that it could not be accepted.

"Accepting that we won’t send soldiers to north of Iraq means giving up our legitimate defense right. Turkey’s accepting that it will not intervene in north of Iraq means digesting the initiatives to turn north of Iraq into a base of the terrorist organization PKK/KADEK," Baykal said.

Baykal said that the government had noted that the issue would be taken up in the Council of Ministers meeting but some articles of the agreement were under authority of parliament.