19.02.2025 13:01
President Erdoğan responded for the first time to TÜSİAD's statements during the AK Party Group Meeting in the Parliament. Erdoğan said, "TÜSİAD's statements have exceeded their limits. We have no business with puppets. Our interlocutors are the puppeteers. The Turkey before 2002 is in the past; you can no longer manipulate the government."
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President and AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan responded to TÜSİAD's controversial criticisms at his party's parliamentary group meeting.
"TÜSİAD'S STATEMENTS EXCEEDED THE LIMIT"
In the relevant part of his speech, Erdoğan used the following expressions:
Before addressing TÜSİAD's provocatively excessive statements, it should be noted that in democracies, no one is free from criticism. If the criticisms are consistent and constructive, we have not and will not turn a deaf ear to them. It is our governments that have raised the standard of our democracy by lifting prohibitions. We have no business with puppets. After the statements of the TÜSİAD management, we do not take into account the opposition figures lined up like obedient servants. The TÜSİAD mentality is a symbol of the times when the state was under their control. They used to design politics in old Turkey.
"YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED"
You will not succeed. If you want Turkey to surrender to those affiliated with terrorist organizations, know that such a thing will never happen.
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