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Fortunately Erdoğan speaks

by Haşmet Babaoğlu

May 03, 2016 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Haşmet Babaoğlu May 03, 2016 12:00 am
In the beginning of her CNN interview, Christiane Amanpour told Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, "You are rated one of the worst leaders in the world."

Even me, who was watching the interview with excitement, could not help thinking what kind of insolence that was while dark clouds passed through Rousseff's eyes.

Amanpour continued with remarks implying that Rousseff's popularity is on the decline, and, with a sardonic expression, she asked whether she would be able to fight to survive.

Rousseff retreated into silence upon the question. After all discrediting salvos, she said she would fight to survive the impeachment motion against her. But what good do these remarks do?

Throughout the interview, Amanpour asked questions in a demeanor reminiscent of the super crime-fighting Brazilian judge, Sergio Moro, while Rousseff was hopelessly trying to make herself understood. What a grave picture.

As is already known, global forces have overt and covert problems with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. One of the overt problems is that they cannot impose their sovereignty and assumed superiority on Erdoğan in the guise of democratic freedom of expression.

This makes them sick.

We recently saw Amanpour confront Erdoğan in Croatia.

Do you remember Erdoğan's reply to the disgraceful remarks - to which our Foreign Ministry remains silent for some reason - European Parliament President Martin Schulz made to him?

"While they are meeting me, they do not adopt such a posture. They always mention the respectability of my leadership." And then he added: "I regard such attitudes as part of the German convention's operation on Turkey."

Let's turn to April 30, the date when Erdoğan made a speech at the İlim Yayma Cemiyeti (Society for Spreading Knowledge) in which he reiterated that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) is a terrorist group aided by some of Turkey's allies.

During his speech, Erdoğan said: "Those countries are NATO members. They told me in a telephone conversation that we should not conduct such dialogue through the media. But what about the weapon aid they make? They should clarify through which channels they delivered that aid."

While I am writing this article, I re-watched the above-mentioned interview.

I felt resentment.

I saw that the West, the world and the Islamic countries in turmoil will have a hard time in the face of Erdoğan.

But fortunately for Turkey, it has a frank leader. Fortunately, he speaks and does not mince words.

Discarding the lie of political truthfulness, which has encompassed the entire world for the last 30 years but only benefits global forces, Erdoğan is waking everyone up from their sleep.
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