President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made statements following the Presidential Cabinet Meeting

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered remarks at a press conference following the Presidential Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex.

President Erdoğan said: “We are the members of a nation that is great with its history and conscience. We have held the hands of those who have fallen, we have rushed to the help of those in need, and we have opened our doors to those who have taken shelter in our country for centuries. We attach no importance to the aspersions the gang of murder, which has the blood of 73 thousand innocent Gazans, most of them children and women, on their hands, cast on our country. There is neither genocide nor massacre, or oppression, or colonialism in our history. There is only justice and mercy in our thousands-year-long glorious history. There is helping all the oppressed regardless of their religion, origin and identity. There is the virtue of protecting those fleeing from inquisition and the Nazi oppression.”

Stressing that those who cast aspersions on Türkiye and the Turkish nation to cover their barbarities in Gaza best know this if they look at their history, President Erdoğan said: “We are a cadre that do politics within the nation’s shared values, not through conflict, tension or quarrel. We speak the same language as our people, communicate through the same language of the heart, and look at the same horizon. Let me state once again clearly that our origins, sects, dispositions, or lifestyles could be different than one another, but we are the citizens of the same state, individuals of the same nation, children of the same homeland, and motifs of the same rug. As I always say, whatever our names are, our surname is the Republic of Türkiye.”