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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey's president, masses condemn terrorist attacks |
| 2015-09-21 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Hundreds of thousands of people protested recent terrorism incidents, with Turkish prime minister calling on people to vote for his party and the president demanding 550 seats for one party in a rally in Istanbul's Yenikapi Square on Sept. 20. "We will not show mercy to terror and terrorists, we will enter their caves and chase them. The life of a martyr cannot be compared to anything. But I have one demand from you. I want you to make a historic effort for the Nov. 1 [election]," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... said. "Send 550 domestic and national deputies on Nov. 1 elections. You know what I mean," said Erdogan. The rally titled "The single voice of millions against terror" started at Yenikapi at 4 p.m. on Sept. 20, a couple of hours before rally participants came to the area with Turkish flags they were handed at the entry to the area. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu conducted the first speech at the rally. He said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) had stopped a planned withdrawal after the Gezi protests. Hearing the slogan of "We don't want the PKK in the parliament," Davutoglu said: "Then you will work hard for the Nov. 1 [election] and leave them under the [election] threshold. You will make the AKP [Justice and Development Party] the single-party government once again," referring to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is focused on the Kurdish issue. Davutoglu also said security forces would continue their operations to keep security tight. "We will continue peace operations and take election security ahead of the Nov. 1 elections," said Davutoglu. |
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