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On 12 August 2005, Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech on the subject of the Kurdish issue in Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. The speech is characterized by being the most liberal discourse ever at the time conducted by a Turkish head of government on this issue. [1]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters at one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies since the Israel-Hamas war began, courting his Islamist ...
President Erdogan addressing the guests. In his inauguration speech at the presidential complex, Erdogan said that the current constitution was a product of the 1980 coup and that it needed to be replaced with "a libertarian, civil and inclusive one" that would strengthen democracy.
A court held that this speech was an attack on the government and Islamist rhetoric, and sentenced Erdoğan in September 1998 to a 10-month prison term, of which he served four months. He was also banned from holding political office for life. "Erdoğan's political career is over," some mainstream newspapers wrote at the time.
A Turkish court has jailed pending trial nine protesters who disrupted President Tayyip Erdogan's speech in Istanbul last week, accusing his government of continuing oil exports to Israel despite ...
On 9 June 2022, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his candidacy during a speech in Izmir at the Aegean sea. [10] [11] In the same speech, ending speculations on the election date, he assured them that the elections would be in June 2023 [12] and also demanded for the oppositional Nation Alliance to announce their candidate. [10]
Minutes after his speech, the latest investigation was launched. ... He won a strong mayoral re-election last year when Erdogan's AKP suffered its worst ever losses in municipal elections.
Following the Gaza flotilla raid, tension between the two countries dramatically mounted, when Erdogan strongly condemned the raid, describing it as "state terrorism", calling for Israeli leaders responsible to be punished, and concluding his speech by saying that "we are sick of your [Israel's] lies". [42]