Head of Turkey Opposition Party: Erdogan Should Stop Exacerbating Tensions

Accuses prime minister of dragging country into fire

Turkey's opposition party leader has urged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to stop escalating tensions and dragging the country "into the fire" as anti-government protests that have led to three deaths entered their 11th day.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular Republican People's Party, told theHurriyet newspaper Monday the country is "witnessing a prime minister who is trying to hold on to power by creating tensions."