Erdogan To Columnist: Give Up Your Citizenship And Get Out Of Turke


He attacked Hurriyet’s prominent columnist Bekir Coskun for having written “If elected, Abdullah Gul cannot be my president” and said, “This is a shameful statement. I have the right to tell people who think this way to first give up their Turkish citizenship and go elsewhere where they can call other people ‘my president’.”


In his column of August 15 Coskun had written that AKP is not a center party as it claims to be, but an Islamist party that is conflicted with the core principles of Ataturk’s republic. Coskun had expressed his fears for Turkey’s transformation into an Islamist state with Gul as President rubberstamping laws enacted by AKP government. “Therefore,” he had written, “Gul will not be my president.”


Source: Hurriyet, Milliyet, Turkey, August 21, 2007


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