President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke on the July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day Commemoration Program on the Presidential Complex.
“Today, we commemorate the eighth anniversary of the victory of my nation, the epic of resistance that our noble nation wrote with their naked arms in opposition to the FETO coup plotters. On the eighth anniversary of July 15, we’re united on this sacred place and throughout all 81 provinces.
Just as we have been 8 years in the past, right now we stand shoulder to shoulder. We are one, we’re collectively. With younger and outdated, women and men, all 85 million of us are a single fist.
As a member of this noble nation and because the President of Türkiye, I first need to categorical the satisfaction I really feel from this magnificent image of brotherhood earlier than me. I thank each one among you for this formidable unity and solidarity, which supplies confidence to pals and instills concern in enemies.
On the evening of July 15, 252 of our residents who resisted the coup attained this good news and have been honored with martyrdom. Besides our martyrs, 2,740 of our individuals have been injured that evening and have become veterans.
To all my brothers and sisters who responded to our name on tv that evening, who rushed to the streets, squares, and airports, who stood fearlessly in opposition to planes and helicopters, who shielded themselves in opposition to bullets with their chests, and who wrote an epic of independence with their flags in hand, I prolong my gratitude on behalf of myself and my nation.
The FETO traitors who prolonged their filthy arms to our homeland on the orders of the charlatan overseas left a black mark on our historical past with the blood they shed.
This treacherous community that sought to hurt our nation, our nation, and the federal government representing our nationwide will, might be remembered with hatred not simply 8 years later, however even 80 years later.
Neither we nor the nation that buried 252 of its youngsters within the floor in a single evening will ever forgive these modern-day hashish-eaters.
Even after 8 years, our ache and anger stay contemporary. Our dedication to struggle in opposition to FETO and guardianship is as vigorous, robust, and steadfast as on the primary day.
Without falling into the insidious traps set by the FETO traitors, we are going to rigorously proceed this course of till the final coup plotter is dropped at justice.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr