"March 30 is a choice between tutelage and politics"
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The local elections will be a turning point in the democratic history of Turkey, says Erdogan.
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the local elections to be held on March 30 will be a choice between the return of tutelage or free politics. Speaking at a rally in the northern city of Trabzon on Monday, Erdogan said: "Either blackmailling tapes and fake voice records will rule this country or you, the nation, will rule it; March 30 is important in this respect."
Stating that the polls will be a turning point in Turkey's democratic history, Erdogan said that democracy had been interrupted in the country several times and some groups wanted to interrupt it again. Erdogan repeated his claim that some groups were engaged in plotting against his government as they did against the Democrat Party in the 1950s. He claimed the conspirators had laid the ground for the military coup which led to the junta executing PM Adnan Menderes and two of his ministers in 1960.
Stating that his government had ended tutelage and mafia operations in Turkey, PM Erdogan said that those people who oppose his Justice and Development (AK) Party were against the fact that the AK Party followed the path of the people, instead of the status quo and interests of some elite groups.
Erdogan, stating that opposition parties in Turkey had been cooperating with the movement led by U.S. based scholar Fethullah Gulen, said the movement would pay for its actions in wiretapping top officials and fabricating fake records allegedly belonging to him and some of his ministers.
"You will give account of your actions because you are in an endeavor threatening the national security of Turkey," declared Erdogan.
Commemorating the death of 20th century Islamic scholar Said Nursi, whom Gulen claims to follow, Erdogan noted that Nursi had said the Turkish nation would never elect the Republican People's Party (CHP) as it had always discriminated against the public.
Stating that the polls will be a turning point in Turkey's democratic history, Erdogan said that democracy had been interrupted in the country several times and some groups wanted to interrupt it again. Erdogan repeated his claim that some groups were engaged in plotting against his government as they did against the Democrat Party in the 1950s. He claimed the conspirators had laid the ground for the military coup which led to the junta executing PM Adnan Menderes and two of his ministers in 1960.
Stating that his government had ended tutelage and mafia operations in Turkey, PM Erdogan said that those people who oppose his Justice and Development (AK) Party were against the fact that the AK Party followed the path of the people, instead of the status quo and interests of some elite groups.
Erdogan, stating that opposition parties in Turkey had been cooperating with the movement led by U.S. based scholar Fethullah Gulen, said the movement would pay for its actions in wiretapping top officials and fabricating fake records allegedly belonging to him and some of his ministers.
"You will give account of your actions because you are in an endeavor threatening the national security of Turkey," declared Erdogan.
Commemorating the death of 20th century Islamic scholar Said Nursi, whom Gulen claims to follow, Erdogan noted that Nursi had said the Turkish nation would never elect the Republican People's Party (CHP) as it had always discriminated against the public.
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