We absolutely do not have amnesty in our agenda: PM Erdogan

Responding to the questions of journalists regarding amnesty, "I think, I could not explain it clearly. I said 'We absolutely do not have amnesty in our agenda' many times. I tell my dreams, you talk about amnesty. Absolutely there is no such thing," Erdogan told after his Justice and Development (AK) Party group meeting.

Addressing the MPs of AK Party, Erdogan stated that people who do not know, and do not read their own history can not say anything, adding, "When they look at Ottoman Empire, they can see that East and Southeast were Kurdistan province. They can see that Eastern Black Sea was Leziztan province. These are inherited to us. You can not ignore them." 

Erdogan also emphasized that when Kurdish musician Siwan Perwer entered governor's office in Diyarbakir, everybody in the room got excited. "In that room, nobody regarded him as Siwan Perwer or as a Kurdish. Everybody regarded him as a human, an artisan, a person who had been outside his own country for 38 years and returned to his homeland that day. They regarded him as a guest who was denaturalised. How does something like that happen? Probably, some people must pay the price for it. They also treated (deceased Turkish folk singer) Ahmet Kaya the same way. They attacked Ahmet Kaya during an award ceremony. Who attacked him? The people who attacked Ahmet Kaya were the ones who attacked us during Gezi Park process. They are the same people," Erdogan said. 

Kurdish musician Siwan Perwer returned to Turkey upon invitation by Erdogan after living in exile for 38 years. Perwer, who came to Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province together with Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Northern Iraqi Kurdistan regional administration, and folk singer Ibrahim Tatlises within the scope of Turkish government's "solution process" to end ethnic conflicts, delivered a speech in both Turkish and Kurdish. Ahmet Kaya was a musician who lost his life outside the country.

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