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Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

tration of the country, that a national assembly will be established

instead of the parliament and that this assembly will select the head of
the council of ministers. We hope that Yemen will be able to emerge
from this situation, in which new political developments are taking
place by the day and which began with the removal of the elected pres-
ident and prime minister, and that it will thus make permanent
progress on the road to democracy.
The fact is that for hundreds of years the people of Yemen have

suffered and lived in an unhappy and backward state due to problems
stemming from hunger, poverty, sectarianism and tribalism and many
other domestic and external difficulties. What the people of Yemen
long for most of all is an end to the climate of tension and insecurity
and the dawn of a period of stability. Everyone in Yemen, be they Shi-
ites, Sunnis or Zaidis, or even non-believers, wants a more peaceful
and tranquil life. The country's most urgent need is a conception of
governance in which everyone benefits equally from democracy, in
which human rights and individual rights and freedoms are respected,

which is inclusive and which treats everyone with love and compas-
sion. At this point, the people of Yemen also have major responsibili-
ties, of course. The most pressing of these are to act as one to preserve
the country's social integrity, to abandon the spirit of conflict so their
country can achieve prosperity, peace and stability, and to collaborate
in a spirit of friendship and brotherhood in the light of the national
interest, rather than of ethnic, sectarian or individual ones.

Internal peace can only come when these conditions are met.
Social peace and stability will develop much more easily once a spirit
of union and unity has been established, and all the country's problems
can then be resolved on the basis of compromise. We hope that Yemen
will soon unite in love and brotherhood, that it will thus achieve the
peace and security it deserves and that it will begin to take sound and
determined steps in the transition to democracy.

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