President Erdoğan on Land Operation

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in joint program by ATV and A Haber (A News) TV channels as to operation against Islamica State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Turkish border.

U.S. Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Kerry has expressed that they will launch an operation together with Turkey to ensure security of ISIS-held territory in Syria. President Erdoğan stated “forces to launch land operation are ready”.

Return of refugees

President Erdoğan said the following regarding the operation:

“DAİŞ (ISIS) is already a target, why so? Because DAİŞ has now become a threat risk for us both inside and outside our country. Thus, it is on the agenda that we will take a step together with coalition forces. Our forces are ready. That will be done, why? Because it is a threat risk. When that will be done is another subject.

“If we will prevent exit from Syria, and provide opportunity to the refugees in our land to return, then we have to build houses suitable for their local architecture in areas cleared of terror and place those people there”.

“Curfews will maintain”

Erdoğan stated the state will not stop its actions in “the terrorized areas in Turkey until it obtains results”.

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“All searches in these places where curfews declared will maintain until a result is obtained. Result will be gotten but these will end only after peace is achieve in those places”.

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Presidential system will be brought to agenda

President Erdoğan said as follows with respect to new Constitution and presidential system:

“As to this constitution, political parties in parliament shall pick up where they left off and initially may they take a step for 60 articles they approved.

“For instance, I’ve brought forward the presidential system subject on the agenda, and I will keep doing that. However, the presidential system matter too was in that constitutional changes, but it wasn’t discussed back then.

“There is one thing important here. What is this presidential system? Let people, academics, politicians discuss it. Does our country lose, or benefit?” (AS/TK)

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