Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took out a paper from his pocket and asked: “What is written here?”
The journalist asked the prime minister: “Would you invest your own personal fortune in your country’s bonds?”
They said, “We will raise a pious generation…” There was also a bonus accompanying it: “Also a revengeful generation…”
What did he say to this nation? “Do not eat white bread; it is risky…” Do not eat white bread, eat brown bread…
I am staying at the Ritz Hotel in Berlin, the place where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is staying.
The other evening, I ran across a Turkish group while entering the new favorite hotel in Berlin, the Ritz Carlton. The one among them with the long grey hair looked familiar.
It was those years when journalists were taken from their homes early in the morning, when their private lives were shredded to pieces and thrown into the eyes of the public in newspaper headlines and columns
The head of one of Turkey’s biggest football clubs is out there, calling out, “I am Ataturkist and secular...”
At the beginning of the 2000s, I supported Erdoğan. While we were approaching the 2002 elections, I visited the headquarters of Justice and Development Party (AK Party).