Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the camp his party held in Afyonkarahisar and mentioned the reactions against UCAVs, saying; “Everybody, including the main opposition, is talking about the unmanned combat aerial vehicles.”

Erdoğan defended the massacring of civilians and said: “They say they were out for a picnic. We will enter their dens in those mountains.”

Erdoğan continued: “We will continue these efforts until the end. Both here and abroad, whoever poses a threat to our country, we will not welcome them. We will push hard where they are. We have taken steps for this, and we continue to do so.”

The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) had made a statement on September 22 and pointed out that dozens of civilians had been targeted by UCAV attacks.

DTK had said: “Fighter jets and the UCAVs manufactured by Erdoğan’s son in law Bayraktar are carrying out intense bombings against the civilian population in the lands of Kurdistan. In several locations including Lice and Hakkari, dozens of civilians have been wounded and killed in these bombings.”

Erdoğan’s speech in the AKP camp also included threats against Southern Kurdistan regarding the referendum held in September 25.

Erdoğan said: “Let me be open and clear, if you continue with this mindset, you will never achieve any results. The only thing that you could do is to go back to where you strted. If you don’t go back to where you started, you will be forced into solitude there and will lose all opportunities you have.”

ADMITTED NATIONALISM

Erdoğan admitted that he is a nationalist: “If calling for ‘one fatherland’ is nationalistic, then we are nationalists. If calling for ‘one flag’ is nationalistic, then we are nationalists. If calling for ‘one state’ is nationalistic, then we are nationalists.”

The same Erdoğan had said, “We will never engage in religious nationalism,” when he received Bulgaria’s Ankara Ambassador Stoyan Stalev on September 5, 2012.

In a speech on April 22, 2011 Erdoğan had said: “We said we will not have ethnic discrimination or ethnic nationalism.”

And on August 12, 2009 Erdoğan had said: “We said we wouldn’t engage in regional nationalism or ethnic nationalism. We continue on this path.”