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| The Grand Turk |
| We would even demolish a mosque to build a road: Turkish PM |
| 2015-03-16 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has reaffirmed his government's determination to go ahead with construction projects that have generated harsh criticism particularly from environmentalists, while accusing protesters blocking the construction of engaging in banditry. "We are serving the public, not the individual," Erdogan said, in response to criticism over the third Bosphorus Bridge based on the bridge's likely adverse effect on the forests to the north of the city and the wildlife depending on these forests. "Everything can be sacrificed for roads, because roads are civilization. But those who are not civilized do not know the roads' value. In our values, roads do not recognize any obstacle. Even if there is a mosque in front of a road, we would demolish that mosque and rebuild it somewhere else," Erdogan said, as he also referred to protests against the removal of hundreds of trees for a road construction passing through the campus of Ankara's Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ). "We won't stop because somebody says so. Bandits used to block roads in the past, now modern bandidos are blocking the roads." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Whay rebuild it? |
| Posted by: JFM 2015-03-16 13:31 |
| #1 Matter of fact, they're thinking about knocking down a couple in Kirkuk, just to get a start. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-16 07:35 |