TURKISH PRESIDENT URGES TO STOP KILLINGS IN EGYPT

Ankara, 14 Shawwal 1434/21 August 2013 (MINA) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul stated that everybody should give effort not to see one more life lost, concerning the recent incidents in Egypt.

“Egypt tasted democracy once and people entered a multiparty system after a long authoritarian regime,” Gul said, speaking in a joint press conference after having met Slovakian President Ivan Gasparovic in Ankara on Tuesday (20/8).

Gul stated that an untenable pain was lived and said to stop the course of events, everybody should feel that pain and get into a rally, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

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“The thing to be made is to provide elections to choose the representatives of the people in free will as soon as possible without excluding anyone and to end the bloodshed in Egypt,” Gul said and added the photos they see, the incidents they follow were not acceptable.

Upon a question on Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu’s approach on the Egyptian incidents, Gul said Islamic world entered a division while the Egyptian incidents went on, expressing his sadness about the issue.

It was important to carry Egypt out from that chaos, Gul underlined and said the first step to be taken now is to end bloodshed in Egypt.

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Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that the coup in Egypt was a coup in every meaning, where blood exists, Erdogan noted that there were women in this coup, and people were killed mercilessly. He reminded that Turkey was the country, which most harshly scolded the coup.

“Several press members have been killed in Egypt by those appointed by the Egypt’s dictators,” said Turkish premier, speaking at the meeting of provincial heads of Justice and Development (AK) Party.

Erdogan highlighted that if they stayed silent in front of the coup in Egypt, they would not hold the right to say something if the same trap was set up for them in the future. (T/P09/P03)

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Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)