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Erdoğan Responds to Criticism of the “Process”: “We Will Not Tolerate Risky Approaches”
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Erdoğan Responds to Criticism of the “Process”: “We Will Not Tolerate Risky Approaches”

From Cumhuriyet · () Turkish

Translated from Turkish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rejected approaches he said could damage national unity and social integration or revive divisions linked to terrorism.
  • Erdoğan said the public had initiated the process and that it had taken hold.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has responded to criticism and debate surrounding the “process,” saying the government will not accept approaches that could weaken the country’s unity.

Speaking aboard a plane, Erdoğan said such approaches could harm social integration and reactivate fault lines created by terrorism in the past. “We will not tolerate approaches that damage the nation’s brotherhood, wound social integration and risk reactivating the fault lines created by terrorism in the past,” he said.

We will not tolerate approaches that damage the nation’s brotherhood, wound social integration and risk reactivating the fault lines created by terrorism in the past.

— Recep Tayyip ErdoğanHe was responding to criticism and debate about the process.

Erdoğan added that the process had emerged from the public and was progressing successfully. “The nation has fermented this process, and the mixture has taken hold,” he said.

The nation has fermented this process, and the mixture has taken hold.

— Recep Tayyip ErdoğanHe described the public’s role in launching and sustaining the process.
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Originally published by Cumhuriyet in Turkish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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