Erdoğan: They have no option left other than self-liquidation

AKP Chairman and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is making statements at the AKP Şanlıurfa 8th Ordinary Provincial Congress...

Here are the highlights from President Erdoğan's statements:

"I greet you with all my heart. I am once again proud to be in Şanlıurfa, the pride of our civilization history, which is a companion to prophets and turns fire into a rose garden. I have brought you the heartfelt love of the people of Diyarbakır. I see that Şanlıurfa is doing well, mashallah. Today, I saw a Urfa here that possesses a bright future. Today, I saw a hope growing in waves.

"THE AK PARTY IS THE PARTY OF 85 MILLION"

Politics is the art of serving the nation and conquering the hearts of the people. In our party, there is no anger or resentment toward the nation as the opposition does. We are a nation that shares a destiny, not just a union of interests with its people. The AK Party is the party of 85 million. The AK Party is a party that provides fair service to all 85 million, regardless of their political identity or their choice at the ballot box.

"WE HAVE BEEN UNIFIERS"

We said we would mobilize justice and development with all their elements. We said we would build a Turkey where there are freedoms, not bans. In the positions we hold, we never looked at anyone's language or ethnic origin. We have always been unifiers and integrators. We pushed aside everything that contradicts our thousand-year brotherhood in these lands. The CHP said, 'We will send the Syrians back,' while we said we would protect them even if it cost us our political future.

IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONVERSE WITH THE IGNORANT, FOR THE IGNORANT SAYS WHATEVER COMES TO THEIR TONGUE

I hope you have not forgotten who made secret deals with whom just to get 3-5 more votes. None of us have forgotten, nor will we forget, those who hide behind the most reckless forms of identity politics. They do not know how to accept defeat and step aside despite the 13 elections they have lost. They still do not understand that they have no standing in Turkish politics anymore and that no one cares what they think. Our ancestors have a beautiful saying: It is difficult to converse with the ignorant, for the ignorant says whatever comes to their tongue.

WE ARE RACING TO REACH THE GOAL OF THE CENTURY OF TURKEY

We will never allow those who try to make us enemies of each other to succeed. We reject the division of our people based on origin. We are trying to unite 85 million under the same common denominator without excluding, hurting, or breaking anyone. We are racing to reach the goal of the Century of Turkey.

WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF THE SAME FUTURE

Those who feed terrorist organizations just because it harms Turkey do not know where Şanlıurfa and Damascus come from. Şanlıurfa knows well where it comes from. If Şanlıurfa has not remained silent about the injustice in its region until today, they will not remain silent today either. Even if those who cannot rejoice at the end of the Baath oppression cannot accept it, the victory of our Syrian brothers is also our victory as their neighbors. We are all children of the same future.

THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION BROUGHT NOTHING BUT PAIN

For 40 years, they have set up dirty games through the separatist terrorist organization. My brothers, the shelf life of this dirty game has expired. The work of those who exploit our region through terrorist organizations is over. The separatist terrorist organization has brought nothing but blood and pain to these lands. It has brought nothing but discrimination and racism.

EITHER THOSE WEAPONS WILL BE BURIED OR THOSE WHO POINT THEM

I want to state this very clearly: there is nothing to be achieved through terror. There is nothing to be gained through violence. It has been clearly seen that no results can be obtained through terror; the separatist organization has no option left other than self-liquidation. Either those weapons pointed at our country will be buried, or those who point weapons at Turkey will be buried. There is no third way other than this. We want terror to withdraw from around our country now."

News Source: 12punto