ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to stand up to 'imperialist' forces as he led Turkish centenary celebrations in the shadow of Israel's escalating war with Hamas militants in Gaza.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to stand up to"imperialist" forces as he led Turkish centenary celebrations in the shadow of Israel's escalating war with Hamas militants in Gaza.
"We will be successful and victorious. No imperialist power can prevent this," Erdogan added in an evening address in Istanbul. "We are Ataturk's daughters, we are the children of the republic," pensioner Nerguzel Asik said after watching a military parade in Istanbul.But Ataturk's social and geopolitical transformation of the overwhelmingly Muslim nation created divisions that weigh on Turkish politics to this day.
Erdogan ended the day by overseeing 100 navy ships pass through the Bosphorus while screaming fighter jets performed aerobatics overhead.estine to wherever there is a need," Erdogan told the nation.Sunday's celebrations have been partially eclipsed by Erdogan's increasingly fierce attacks against Israel over its response to the October 7 Hamas attacks.
Erdogan's lifelong defence of Palestinian rights has turned him into a hero across swathes of the Muslim world.
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