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would-be lynchers continued outside of the property.
Finally, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, who was also present at the funeral, stood in front of the house and addressed the mob. “My esteemed friends, you gave your message, you have shown your reaction, now disperse,” he said, according to bianet’s translation.
Akar claims he was kidnapped by FETOist coup plotters on July 15, 2015. However, the so-called FETOists told the court they didn’t kidnap the then army chief, they just obeyed his orders.
“The thugs that almost killed Turkey’s opposition leader are still protesting. Regime could make them disperse if it wanted (tear gas used daily against dissenters?). Meanwhile, regime’s Defense Minister has effectively congratulated the thugs ‘for delivering a necessary message,’” Timur Kuran of Duke University in the US wrote on Twitter.
At around 15:20 on the day of the mob attack, Kilicdaroglu left the house and departed in an armoured vehicle. As he was leaving , a woman was heard shouting: "Burn the house, burn it."
Changed man. The CHP leader addressed a crowd gathered in front of his party’s headquarters to support him. He seemed a changed man from the Kilicdaroglu familiar to observers since 2010. He suggested that he’d got the message but, surprisingly, won’t be following the unmistakable orders this time.
That message is patently familiar. No-one is allowed to attempt to reunite the Turks and Kurds with common political goals that would end the terror as Kilicdaroglu’s CHP had done during the March local elections. It is a basic rule in Turkey. The same case holds with the issue of the Armenian genocide. Prominent journalist Hrant Dink was killed in 2007 after trying to convince some Turks that some unacceptable events actually took place in 1915. Journalist Ugur Mumcu, Diyarbakir Bar Association head Tahir Elci and Diyarbakir police chief Gaffar Okkan are just some examples of people who were murdered after trying to convince people that the PKK terror could end.
“No attack can intimidate us. We will bring spring to this country. I promise that spring will prevail in each and every part of this country... They set up scaffolds for me. It is my promise to my 82 million people: I have a single life and I can sacrifice this life if it is necessary for the survival of this country and the happiness of the children,” Kilicdaroglu said, essentially, and remarkably, in addressing the crowd in this way, throwing off the chains he’d been burdened by for so long.
During his speech, the crowd chanted: “Soysuz resign”.
In Turkish, while the word 'Soylu' means noble and well-bred, its antonym, 'Soysuz', means corrupt and ignoble.
“Don’t allow CHP at martyrs’ funerals”. In June 2018, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said during one of his regular attacks on the CHP: “I sent instructions to the governors via my undersecretary. I told them 'Don't allow CHP provincial chairs into the protocols of martyr funerals.' It is that simple. They have only one place, one address to go. We will show them this address. The members of the PKK also have funerals. We very rarely let them hold funerals. We will allocate them a one-person quota. If they are together at the ballot box, they will also be together at the funeral.”
The person photographed punching Kilicdaroglu is an AKP member. AKP spokesperson Omer Celik said in a tweet: “Our Ankara Provincial Executive Board has decided to refer O.S. to the Provincial Disciplinary Board,
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