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| The Grand Turk |
| HDP 'deceived nation' with Turkish flags before June 7 poll: Erdogan |
| 2015-09-30 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has elaborated on his notion of being "local and national," while staging another attack on the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which he said deceived the country by presenting itself as an entity which respects the Turkish flag. "The terror organization is not only the enemy of the country, but is also the enemy of all members of our nation along with our Kurdish siblings. During our rally in Istanbul, I focused on being local and being national. Here I say it: Like all of my citizens living in the region and in the four corners of our country, my Kurdish siblings and my Zaza siblings are also local and national, they are own children of this homeland," Erdogan said Sept. 29 at a gathering with a large group of muhtars at the presidential palace. The reference was to a rally which he led along with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at Istanbul's Yenikapi Square on Sept. 20. The rally was attended by more than 100,000 people and resembled an election rally, with Erdogan vowing in a barnstorming speech to pursue the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) "to the terrorists' last redoubt." "No matter which party they are from, I want you to send 550 local and national deputies to parliament on Nov. 1," Erdogan said at the rally, referring to the Nov. 1 snap elections in what some had speculated was a suggestion that Kurdish deputies were not part of the nation. Speaking to muhtars at the 11th such meeting that Erdogan has held at the presidential palace since late January, Erdogan made clear that the PKK was "not local and not part of this nation." "Those who aim at our country's gains do not belong to this country, even if they are in parliament," Erdogan said, in an apparent reference to the HDP, which he insistently says is the political wing of the PKK. |
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