Regarding the demands of the protesters conveyed to Arınç on June 6, Erdoğan said it was “meaningless to have a race.”“The logic of ‘If I take this, I give this,’ ‘If you give this, I want this’ has no place in running a state,” the prime minister said. Erdoğan said his party never considered sending its members to the streets. People have right to demonstrate, he said. “But you cannot demonstrate everywhere and burn and demolish,” he added. “We [as a party] collected 2.15 million votes, and still face being closed down, but never called our voters to the street. “The courts have returned our right.” .....Comment: In his arrogance and hubris, Erdogan is prepared to risk losing the progress he made in 11 years, but backing down hurts his ego; this is the hall mark of a dictatorial mind...ZAB was also like that...
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:12:32 +0000