President Erdoğan: We have been endeavoring to leave the Republic to next generations by making it stronger in every area
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at a flag raising ceremony at Turkey’s tallest flagpole, newly-erected at 111 meters high at Çamlıca Hill in Istanbul.
Marking the April 23rd National Sovereignty and Children’s Day in his speech, President Erdoğan noted that the Grand National Assembly was inaugurated with prayers 101 years ago today in Ankara.
“We remember with mercy all the members of this Ghazi parliament who led our War of Independence and ended it with victory. We extend our gratitude to all -- first and foremost Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk -- who enabled victory to be achieved in our War of Independence and our new state, the Republic, to be founded,” the President said.
“May Allah not leave our country obliged to wage another War of Independence and write another Turkish National Anthem,” President Erdoğan said. “Even though the methods employed to divide the homeland and dismember our state have changed, the motive remains the same. Every attack targeting this country and nation to this date, from coup plotters to terrorist organizations and economic traps, is the product of the same dirty scenario. Overcoming challenges one by one, we have been advancing step by step on the path to constructing a bigger and stronger Turkey. Reinforcing the bridge extending from the past to the future, we have been working day and night to ensure that the Republic of Turkey, our final state, exists forever. We have been endeavoring to leave the Republic, the centenary of which we are nearing, to next generations by making it greater and stronger in every area. We have been in a struggle to bring our country to its 2023 targets for 19 years. I am confident that our children, with the 2053 vision, will carry way further what is entrusted to them. We are gifting our flag, which will be flying at our country’s tallest flagpole that we are going to inaugurate today, to our children as a symbol of this vision.”
