President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Egypt's only democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi was murdered. "Morsi did not die a natural death, he was killed," he said, in a no-holds-barred address in Istanbul. Morsi died on Monday after falling unconscious during his trial on "espionage" charges. Activists and his family have long maintained that he was not receiving treatment for a host of health problems including diabetes. “They did not give Morsi's body to his family. They even feared his body,” Erdogan said. “Morsi wanted to be buried in his village. However, the Egyptian regime buried him not...
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Speaking at a dinner hosted by Trabzon Elderly Welfare Association, President Erdoğan said: “To us, our homeland’s permanence and our nation's future are above all plans. Let me be clear; no one can stop us from pursuing the Turkish Cypriots’ rights and interests in Eastern Mediterranean.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at a dinner hosted by Trabzon Elderly Welfare Association in Istanbul. “We will not let anyone usurp the rights of our brothers in Northern Cyprus” With regard to the arrest warrant issued by the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus for the personnel aboard...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the funeral in absentia held at Fatih Mosque in Istanbul for Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi. Speaking during the funeral, President Erdoğan stated that he does not believe that Mohammed Morsi died of natural causes, and noted that his body was not delivered to Morsi’s family. Drawing attention to the fact that Morsi was the first democratically elected President of Egypt, President Erdoğan noted that the West could not even tolerate it, and pointed to their silence. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/105710/president-erdogan-attends-the-funeral-in-absentia-held-in-istanbul-for-mohammed-morsi
Addressing citizens at an opening ceremony in the Sultangazi district of Istanbul, President Erdoğan said: “We have overcome all the setbacks we have suffered thanks to our strong communion with the people. And today, we carry on moving forward on our path with the courage we take from our people without bowing down to sanction threats, economic traps and military shows of strength.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at an opening ceremony of the newly-built facilities in the Sultangazi district of Istanbul. President Erdoğan said: “We have overcome all the setbacks we have suffered thanks...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered condolences to the family of Lieutenant Gendarmerie Şafak Evran, who was martyred during the conflict with the terrorists in Şırnak. President Erdoğan sent a condolence telegraph to the family of Lieutenant Gendarmerie Şafak Evran, who was martyred during the conflict with the members of the PKK terrorist organization.
President Erdoğan, with regard to Egypt’s former President Morsi’s death, said, “We and all Muslims will remember the late Morsi for the honorable struggle he put up till his last breath. In our eyes, he is a martyr who lost his life while fighting for his cause. History will never forget those oppressors, who imprisoned him, threatened him with death sentence and caused his death,” during a speech in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at an event in Istanbul titled “Cihannüma and Old Friends’ Gathering with the Spirit of 94”. “I learned with...
Presidency’s Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun offered his condolences over the demise of Egypt's first democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi in the court room. On his Twitter account, Prof. Altun made the following remarks: "Egypt’s first democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown with a bloody coup in front of the whole world, passed away. May he rest in peace. I would like to express my condolences to the Egyptian people and the Islamic world. Mohammed Morsi will be remembered as a courageous man of the cause, politician for holding his head high against the persecution and for...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday offered his condolences to the family of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Morsi after he died during a trial in Egypt. Speaking to the reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan said current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi overthrew democratically-elected Morsi, executing 50 other Egyptians and putting the democracy aside. "Unfortunately, the incident took place in the court room. I first of all I wish God's mercy for our martyred brother Morsi," Erdogan said. "The West has always been silent in the face of these executions by Sisi. The EU member states forbidding execution unfortunately accepted an invitation by...
On July 15, 2016, Turkey experienced one of the longest and toughest night and entered into a new day with an epic of liberation. Our heroic nation performed a dignified resistance and unprecedented courage against the treacherous coup attempt by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which took place before the eyes of the world, and showed the whole world how to cope with anti-democratic interventions. Those who lost their lives for their homeland are now noble heroes. The rest are going to tell this heroism from generation to generation, as they have conveyed dozens from our glorious history… In the third year...