Binali Yıldırım Elected AKP President
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Binali Yıldırım, the only candidate for chair of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been elected as the third president for the party at the AKP’s Second Extraordinary Congress.
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Council Chairperson, Binali Yıldırım making the announcement said of the 1,470 delegates 1,411 voted and six votes have been considered invalid.
Bozdağ announced that Binali Yıldırım has become the new president of the AKP with 1,405 votes.
Yıldırım prior to elections greeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and touched upon the operations being carried out in the southeast, and the relations with the European Union.
Greetings to Erdoğan
“I greet with respect the founder of enlightened Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is a man of cause and dauntless defender of great Turkey.
“We’ve always said with our head held high ‘I am Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s companion and sidekick’ and will continue to say so”.
“Operations will continue”
“We divide the roads but never let the country be divided. We divide our bread but never let Turkey be divided. The issue is the issue of homeland.
“The determination regarding terror will continue in the same way as before. We’ve lived as brothers and sisters on these lands for a thousand year and will continue to live so.
“These operations are going to maintain until peace is restored. May our nation rest assured, we will remove this terror trouble from Turkey’s agenda.
“We will continue our fight not only against the separatist organization [PKK] but also against DEAŞ (ISIS), PYD (Democratic Union Party) and parallel terror organization (Gülen Movement)”.
“It is time to know what EU thinks of Turkey”
“There is a thing the European Union has to do. It should put an end to confusion as to full membership of Turkey and refugee situation. It is now time to know what the EU thinks of Turkey.
“Turkey has done all necessary legislations and implementations to develop its democracy and complete its development so far even it’s not an EU member and will continue to do so”. (EKN/TK)