The event started with a minute of silence for those killed while opposing the coup, followed by the Turkish national anthem and a recitation of prayers. Numerous more than 240 people killed on July 15 were civilians who tried to prevent the takeover of power. “The spirit of one nation, one flag, one homeland and one state will prevail throughout the rally”, he said.
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In his speech, Devlet Bahceli, leader of the MHP, said “I was fortunate enough to watch Turkey rise with pride”.
“If they [the people] reach such a decision, then I believe the political parties will comply with this decision”, Erdogan said at the rally in the district of Yenikapi on the Sea of Marmara coast on the European side of the city. “All the political parties are united, a picture we have longed to see”.
The protest culminated nearly daily rallies across Turkey, and represented the first time in decades that major opposition parties joined a pro-government parade in this nation with a population of 80 million people.
The Turkish military, the most powerful after the US within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation bloc, is being restructured in Anraka’s sweeping efforts to clean state institutions of coup suspects and followers of the so-called Gulen movement led by Fetullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric residing in the United States.
“July 15 has opened the door for our reconciliation”, said main opposition Republican People’s Party Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu said.
“I am a CHP voter, and an advocate of left-wing principles”.
Nazarbayev said the schools educate their pupils in four languages – English, Turkish, Kazakh and Russian. “Gulen movement and other religious groups (tarikat) have enslaved our country”.
Turkey’s top soldier added that the “betrayers were challenged and defeated as they deserved in the squares”.
The pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party’s co-leaders, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were not invited. An AKP follower, who did not wish to be named, expressed his pleasure at the opposition´s response.
Rahimpour noted that Iran, Azerbaijan and Russian Federation are ready to support those issues that serve as security in the region on August 8 in Baku.
More than 1 million Turks have gathered in Istanbul for a rally called by President Tayyip Erdogan to denounce a failed coup – a show of strength staged in the face of Western criticism of widespread purges and detentions.
It also doesn’t help that Erdoğan has blamed the West for the coup, especially the US since Gülen lives here and the government just won’t hand him over.
Almost 18,000 people have been detained or arrested, mostly from the military, and tens of thousands have been suspended or dismissed from jobs in the judiciary, media, education, health care, military, and local government. From his base in Pennsylvania, Gulen denies the charges.
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European Union leaders have previously stated that if Turkey were to reintroduce the death penalty, it would effectively end the country’s application to join the bloc. “Our prime minister joined a rally in the streets of Paris”, Erdogan said, referring to the deadly militant attack on the office of the French satirical magazine in January 2015.
