President Erdoğan

Concerning Ankara, Bursa and Balıkesir mayors being asked to resign, President Erdoğan has said, “They will and must do what they have to do before we do something about it”.

President Erdoğan has spoken about the law draft to grant the muftis to perform marriage, and HDP MPs.

In the wake of US suspending all visa services in Turkey, President Erdoğan stating that Turkey taking the same decision was his order has said, “We are not a tribal state”.

Concerning the allegations that some mayors will be asked to resign, President Erdoğan has said, “Everything is good when one is brought to a post, but why asking them to leave is found odd?”

The TBMM General Assembly 26th Term 3rd Legislative Year has begun. The HDP hasn’t attended the session. Giving the opening speech, President Erdoğan has criticized the HDP.

German FM Gabriel has said that people had left messages with threats on an answering machine in a dentist clinic where his wife works, and added, “The way Erdogan does this motivates some people to try to harass and bother my wife”.

Detention warrant has been issued for 14 people 12 of whom are presidential bodyguards due to the assault carried out against those who protested Erdoğan in Washington.

Erdoğan has said that he doesn’t find seven countries cutting ties with Qatar for “supporting terrorism” wrong.

President Erdoğan’s bodyguards have intervened in the scuffle erupted between protesters and Erdoğan supporters as Erdoğan went to the Turkish Embassy. Two people have been detained, nine others wounded.

About US arms aid to the YPG, President Erdoğan has said “I wish the US backs down from some of the facts that they’ve voiced”.

President Erdoğan has become an AKP member again after three years.

President Erdoğan will be an AKP member on May 2. AKP Extraordinary Session will be held on May 21.

President Erdoğan has expressed he found US bombing Syria positive but not sufficient and said, “The recent developments have manifested the rightness of the idea to form secure zones in Syria”.

Referring to arrested journalist Deniz Yücel, President Erdoğan has said, “When Merkel came to visit me, she asked me to release him. I told her ‘judiciary is independent here’”.

President Erdoğan has criticized deportation of Minister of Family and Social Policies Sayan-Kaya from the Netherlands and that they will have it pay the price after the Dutch general elections.

President Erdoğan has said the arrested Die Welt correspondent Yücel is not a journalist but terrorist.

The Constitutional amendment draft has been sent by President Erdoğan to Prime Ministry to be put to the popular vote.

In a speech at TÜBA Awards ceremony, President Erdoğan has said he had given an order for F-Keyboards to be used in public institutions but we couldn’t get any result.

President Erdoğan has said the finance sector has to funnel credit to investors, “If the credits given to people with low interest, investors’ competitive power will increase”.

President Erdoğan has claimed that the West takes side with the coups and said, “this incident is a coup act whose actors are inside but whose script is written outside”.