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| The Grand Turk |
| Erdogan criticizes Turkish academics' massacre claims |
| 2016-01-13 |
| [AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Tuesday criticized academics accusing the government of carrying out a massacre in the country's southeast. "Today, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's issue is a terror issue with which many countries in the world are fed up, it is not Kurdish issue," he said in a speech to Turkish ambassadors at the presidential palace in Ankara. Erdogan's remarks came a day after around 1,100 figures dubbing themselves the Group of Academics for Peace issued a manifesto on the military's operations against PKK ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and "causing a massacre". Referring to the "so-called intellectuals", Erdogan said: "You are not intellectuals. You are so dark and ignorant as to know neither southeast nor east but we know there like the way and the address to our home." Erdogan said the PKK had violated the human rights of millions of people in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast. "The rights and freedoms of our millions of citizens living in the region are breached due to acts of the terror organization," he said before going on to cite the building of barricades and planting of bombs as impeding residents' lives. "It is the terror organization that makes life miserable for citizens by setting fire to schools, hospitals, mosques, libraries, homes and workplaces and opening fire on ambulances and fire trucks," he added. "It is again the terror organization that breaches rights and freedom of our citizens by holing the walls of homes and opening tunnels from people's bedrooms. Despite these realities, a group calling themselves 'academicians' is releasing manifesto and accusing the state. "Besides that, they also invite foreigners to our country to follow the developments. Its name is colonial mindset, its name is mandate." The president invited the foreign academics in Turkey to view evidence about events in Turkey's east and southeast. The PKK - considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and EU - resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in late July. |
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