Turkey's main opposition leader on Saturday begins hosting a four-day "justice congress"

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), is holding the congress at an open-air site in the northwestern province of Çanakkale, with sessions each day "focusing on different rights violations" in Turkey.

"Eighty million have a thirst for justice," Kılıçdaroğlu said, referring to Turkey's population.

"It is my duty to seek justice. It is my duty to stand by the innocent and be against tyrants," he told the gathering of about 10,000 people.

At the exhibition at the CHP's "justice congress," the ultra-nationalist murderer Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu, responsible for the Balgat massacre was displayed side by side with 7 students who were members of the Labour Party of Turkey (TİP), killed in Ankara by fascists, communist poet Nazım Hikmet, and Erdal Eren, 17-year-old high school student who was executed following the 1980 Turkish military coup led by Kenan Evren.

A similar exhibit was displayed on the anniversary of the September 12, 1980 military coup at İstanbul by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).