Erdoğan avoids questions on meeting Kılıçdaroğlu, Ottoman geography comments

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sidestepped questions from the press regarding alleged meetings with opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu following a Justice and Development Party (AKP) group meeting. A journalist asked Erdoğan if he had met with Kılıçdaroğlu, referencing claims that the opposition leader had held discussions with the government. Erdoğan offered no direct response to this inquiry. Furthermore, Erdoğan did not comment on Kılıçdaroğlu's recent statement suggesting that Turkey should return to the "Ottoman geography." This remark, which implies a significant shift in foreign or domestic policy, was left unaddressed by the president. When journalist Murat Yetkin reminded Erdoğan of his earlier statement that the AKP would not take sides as long as political institutions were not harmed, Yetkin asked, "What is the limit to that?" Erdoğan responded to this question by asking, "Murat, would there be a limit to that?"

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Murat, would there be a limit to that?