Wednesday 19 June 2013

The speech of the Turkish Prime Minister



Tens of thousands have gathered for a rally in support of Turkish PM, last Sunday. Erdoğan addresses the notorious secularist violent opposition protesters in a historical speech.

He said in his speech: “These people used mosques as barns during the single-party period."
He expressed “These dark circles will never be able to succeed in their attempt to de-stable this country. One thing they did not count on was the determination of its people,” he said. "The call to prayer used to be recited in a flat, depressing way [in Turkish language]" Erdoğan reminded. "However, with the decision of the Adnan Menderes government long ago, the call started being recited as original [in Arab]," he added.
“Those who wonder about what’s going on in Turkey should take a better look at Kazlıçeşme, at Istanbul,” Erdoğan told his supporters in Istanbul. “These hundreds of thousands of people are not the ones who have burned and destroyed; these hundreds of thousands of people are not traitors like those who threw Molotov cocktails at my people. Whatever we do, we’ll remain within the frame of democracy and the rule of law. We have never pushed the limits of legality,” he assured. ‘Hide this if you can’ Erdoğan once again slammed the international media. “If the international media want a picture of Turkey, the picture is here,” he said. “CNN, Reuters, BBC, hide this picture too, and go on with your lies. Turkey is not a country on which international media institutions can conduct operations. Without feeling ashamed they say get ready for the Turkish Spring after the Arab Spring. They do not know that the Turkish Spring occurred on November 3, 2002,” the prime minister challenged. “Now Gezi Parkı has been cleared and handed back to its people. The municipality has cleared the park and renewed it with new flowers. Real environmentalists are at work now. Who is this environmentalist? The AK Party government,” he announced.
And he concluded 'I don't take orders from anyone except god'
Erdogan, many people don't know that he was the mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998 until he was sentenced to year in prison for reciting a poem deemed to be anti-secular.
It included with verses translated as "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...."

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