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TURKISH MINISTER SAYS TURKEY TO GIVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
DORTYOL - Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Sunday that Turkey would give their constitutional rights to those who wanted to protect their own identities.
17.01.2011 - Update : 17.01.2011
Deputy Premier and State Minister Bulent Arinc said that if a person said that s/he was a Kurd, that was the same as a person saying s/he was a Turk.
"We will give their constitutional and humanitarian rights to those who want to protect their identities," Arinc said during a meeting of the Justice & Development (AK) Party in Dortyol town of the southern province of Hatay.
Arinc said the AK Party was aware that terrorism could not be solved only by weapons, and therefore had taken economic, social and political measures.
"Now, there are 1,500 militants in Turkey and 2,500 others in Mount Qandil, but this number can change. There are around 5,000 militants," he said.
Arinc said this number could not drop if people were prevented from taking to mountains. "You should take such social and security measures that the organization is hampered from staging armed attacks," he said.
The deputy premier said the government was determined to fight against terrorism, and Kurds were living in peace throughout Turkey, not only in a certain region.
Arinc said terrorism had no religion or color, and Turkey had distributed 4 quadrillion Turkish liras (TL) to terror victims so far.
The minister said according to the constitution, Turkey's official language was Turkish and education and official correspondence had to be in Turkish.
"If we prepare a new constitution, we still need such an article," he said.
Arinc said every one could speak other languages in their family life, streets, radio and TV channels or books and magazines, but the state should have a single official language and education language should be single.
The terrorist organization was losing support, and was about to give up armed attacks, Arinc said.
On Armenian allegations on the incidents of 1915, Arinc said, "we have never been the children of a nation that made massacre or genocide, there is not such a murder in our history."
Arinc said nobody could accuse Turkey of carrying out genocide for incidents that occurred during relocation of some people who had rebelled to the state.
Commenting on the general elections to take place in the summer of 2011, Arinc said the surveys indicated the possible vote of the AK Party would be around 47-50 percent.
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"We will give their constitutional and humanitarian rights to those who want to protect their identities," Arinc said during a meeting of the Justice & Development (AK) Party in Dortyol town of the southern province of Hatay.
Arinc said the AK Party was aware that terrorism could not be solved only by weapons, and therefore had taken economic, social and political measures.
"Now, there are 1,500 militants in Turkey and 2,500 others in Mount Qandil, but this number can change. There are around 5,000 militants," he said.
Arinc said this number could not drop if people were prevented from taking to mountains. "You should take such social and security measures that the organization is hampered from staging armed attacks," he said.
The deputy premier said the government was determined to fight against terrorism, and Kurds were living in peace throughout Turkey, not only in a certain region.
Arinc said terrorism had no religion or color, and Turkey had distributed 4 quadrillion Turkish liras (TL) to terror victims so far.
The minister said according to the constitution, Turkey's official language was Turkish and education and official correspondence had to be in Turkish.
"If we prepare a new constitution, we still need such an article," he said.
Arinc said every one could speak other languages in their family life, streets, radio and TV channels or books and magazines, but the state should have a single official language and education language should be single.
The terrorist organization was losing support, and was about to give up armed attacks, Arinc said.
On Armenian allegations on the incidents of 1915, Arinc said, "we have never been the children of a nation that made massacre or genocide, there is not such a murder in our history."
Arinc said nobody could accuse Turkey of carrying out genocide for incidents that occurred during relocation of some people who had rebelled to the state.
Commenting on the general elections to take place in the summer of 2011, Arinc said the surveys indicated the possible vote of the AK Party would be around 47-50 percent.
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