Part of Erdoğan's speech yesterday was identical to PM's 2017 speech

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Part of a speech President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan gave yesterday (February 16) was identical to a 2017 speech by then-Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, a social media user has revealed.

Erdoğan spoke at the Presidential Complex during the opening ceremony of the "Year of Yunus Emre and Turkish," marking the 1,000th birth year of folk poet Yunus Emre.

He stressed the importance of the Turkish language and criticized internet slang and the use of foreign words.

Twitter user "444syyh1" spotted that a part of Erdoğan and Yıldırım's speeches were identical and posted a split-screen video showing both of them.

"The social media language is turning into an adequate written language, a language of communication among our youth," the leaders say.

"Meaningless abbreviations, interspersed foreign words, sentence fragments and nonsensical expressions are becoming ordinary day after day.

"The addiction of using foreign words that we witness in signboards, correspondence and talk has reached a level that threatens our future."

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— Seyyah ❂ (@444syyh1) February 16, 2021

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