President Erdoğan: All Muslims will remember Morsi for the honorable struggle he put up till his last breath

 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at an event in Istanbul titled “Cihannüma and Old Friends’ Gathering with the Spirit of 94”.

“I learned with grief that former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, who had been overthrown by a bloody coup in July 2013 and then imprisoned by the junta, passed away,” President Erdoğan said. “We had a close friendship with him both before and after his election as president. The late Morsi had been tried and sentenced to death by putschist courts and he drew his last breath in a court room, which is the symbol of the oppression he and his people had been suffering for years. Oppressors may target the lives of the oppressed and may even kill them but they can never harm the dignity of their struggle.”

“We and all Muslims will remember the late Morsi for the honorable struggle he put up till his last breath,” President Erdoğan underscored. “In our eyes, he is a martyr who lost his life while fighting for his cause. History will never forget those oppressors, who imprisoned him, threatened him with death sentence and caused his death.”