After the start of the operation, the opposition CHP began to criticize its implementation. A CHP spokesman lambasted Erdogan for "driving [Turkey] to the Middle East swamp"[4] while CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu criticized the government for failing to respond to "humiliating" Twitter attacks from the Trump administration.[5] and uniting the world against it with an "adventurous foreign policy."[6]