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2019-03-11 The Grand Turk
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Erdogan slams women's day rally over 'rude' behaviour
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[PULSE.NG] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
 ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
on Sunday lambasted participants of the International Women's Day march in Istanbul over what he described as "disrespect" during the Islamic call to prayer.
Police fired tear gas on Friday at thousands after authorities issued a statement banning any demonstration on the famous Istiklal avenue before the march, although the event has previously taken place peacefully.
In an unverified video that has since gone viral, women and men marching on Friday along the avenue continued chanting during the call to prayer.
"A group which came together in Taksim led by the (main opposition Republican People's Party) CHP and (pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party) HDP supposedly for women's day behaved rudely with whistling and chanting during the call to prayer," Erdogan said.
The avenue is close to Taksim square, a traditional rallying point.
Erdogan played a short clip of the video as well as footage of an opposition rally from 2011 where it was claimed the Ottoman Turkish flag could not be seen.
"(The opposition is) attacking our liberty and our future with this disrespect to our flag and our call to prayer," he said during a rally in the southern city of Adana.
The president has been holding daily rallies across the country and often slamming the opposition ahead of local elections on March 31. He has accused the CHP of being in an alliance with the HDP, which Erdogan says is a political front for Kurdish krazed killers.
Although polls suggest Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) remains the biggest, there are fears the opposition may make larger gains as the economic slowdown and the weaker Ottoman Turkish lira impacts households. 
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