Ozkaya: I will not get into a debate

Eraslan Özkaya, speaking at a reception he hosted on Monday night, said that his comments earlier in the day that there was a threat to the secular state of Turkey posed by those wanting to impose a religious form of governance was not aimed directly at the AKP.
When was asked whether he had aimed is comments, made in an address to mark the opening of the new judicial year, at the AKP, Özkaya said “You should ask this question to the Prime Minister. It seemed he perceived it as such.”
In his speech, Özkaya had said, “those who aspire to build a Islamist state and those demanding unlimited freedoms of religion and conscience are united in a common cause.”
Later on Monday Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan denied that there was a threat that Turkey could become a religious state and valued the comments as “ugly and negative.”
“I would not get involved into a polemic and all my speech was legislative and scientific,” Özkaya said when was asked what whether he spoke about this issue with the Premier, who was present at the Monday night reception.