President Erdoğan: What Dolmabahçe Agreement?

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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spoken at mass opening organized at Hacı Sabancı Organized Industrial Area in Adana.

Erdoğan reiterated once more that the Dolmabahçe Agreement was not an “agreement”.

Erdoğan stating in case measure of democracy, rights, liberties are assessed in Turkey different than other countries would be ‘double standard’ has said the following:

“The stand taken against us at the moment is exactly that. With all due respect, if someone slaps us on one cheek, we will not turn to them the other.

 “We as a nation that possesses state tradition going back for thousands of years, the most ancient civilization of the world know very well what to do under what circumstances.

“The ones patting terror organizations on the back today to discipline us, will fall into the same well themselves. Yesterday the political party leaders were giving a speech. One of them was speaking of ‘civil war’, since the terror organization is behind him…

“He every whipstitch mentions the ‘Dolmabahçe Agreement’. What Dolmabahçe agreement? Where did this come from? Such an agreement is out of question”.

“This government’s such an agreement with the terror organization has been out of question.

“One nation, one flag on every occasion”

President Erdoğan emphasized that they say “one nation, one flag on every occasion and no one can divide the country”:

“No one will be able to divide this country. They won’t be able to divide us, that is why our sign is one nation, one flag, one country, one state. This is it.

“We approve democracy, rights and liberties, supremacy of law, freedom of expression and press, and lifting the parliamentary immunities if it will help politicians feel themselves safe, however, we will never let any of these to be used as shield for attacks against unity of our nation, existence of our state”. (AS/TK)  

Photo: İbrahim Erikan – Adana / AA

* “Dolmabahçe Agreement” is a document outlining a 10-item list of priorities for the resolution of the Kurdish issue. Erdoğan after June 7 general elections claimed that he didn’t know the content of it, which was contradicted by former Vice PM, Bülent Arınç saying “I know the President was informed”.