ANKARA (AA) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said, "Gezi Park was a theatre, where the intimate youth were in the foreground; however, illegal groups resorted to violence in the background."
Erdogan who spoke at a meeting of his Justice and Development (AK) Party's provincial chairmen asked, "Does a dictator make a plebiscite?"
Erdogan used a metaphor and said that Turkey was a sun and they can not darken it with mud and they never allowed to let foreign powers to make operation on Turkey.
He underlined that, "Turkey is a country not ruled by loudest voice but by democracy and laws" and that it was not up to Germany to criticize them on Gezi Park. "Germany must first find the perpetrators who killed 8 Turkish citizens in Germany for racist reasons."
Erdogan criticized Gezi Park coverage of international media: "AK Party does not give in to defamation campaign of international media organs," and added that the scores must be settled through polls in March 2014.
He reminded, "Demonstrators have killed a policeman in Adana city, and they have destroyed environment; however, no media institution published them," and noted that they never let the minority rule the majority.
"We have received the message and made the evaluation after Taksim Protests, so we will wait for adjudication about the Gezi Park," he said, adding, "CHP, which can not stand as opposition in the parliament, is hiding behind militants on the streets".
Erdogan referred to the past when he said, "The era of unrest, intervention and junta and mob in Turkey is over. Nobody should make politics by taking to streets, destroying and burning, calling on others to intervene and showing us the gallows."
About the final decision on the Gezi Park plans he told that this will be made after the end of judicial process and highlighted, "If judiciary in the end allows the project we'll still apply the public vote. Istanbul Municipality will organize the vote according to existing laws. It won't be military barracks but a city museum. 80 percent of trees will be within the city museum, the rest will be planted around the complex."
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