President Erdoğan met with 207 university students from 81 provinces within the framework of the Youth Meetings. Regarding the terrorist-free Türkiye process, Erdoğan said, “The caves have been emptied, weapons have been burned. By now, peace has come to Southeast and Southeast Asia.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with 207 university students from 81 provinces within the framework of the AK Party Youth Meeting “University” Program held at the Haydarpaşa Campus of the University of Medical Sciences.
President Erdoğan entered the hall with the song “Şiire Gazele” performed by Ahmet Kaya.
“I BELIEVE YOU, I BELIEVE YOU”
During the program, the first video on the theme “Youth First” prepared by AK Party Youth cells was shown.
President Erdoğan said the following in his speech at the meeting:
“Youth meetings are one of the original works that we brought to Turkish politics and have become a symbol for us. We have been together with the youth in many provinces. I would like to express that these meetings have opened my personal vision. We have not only received courage but also inspiration from you, our young brothers. We have always stood side by side with young people throughout the 23 years of Turkey's rule. We have stepped forward by paving the way for young people in every field, from politics to bureaucracy and the business world. Today, the youth are the ones who show the most favor and give the most to the youth. We are a political movement that shows support. Because we believe that the greatest strength of this country is its young people who have confidence and ideals. We are looking for a determined, conscious, ethical and qualified young man who draws strength from his roots but always looks towards the horizon. AK Youth carries that responsibility on its shoulders. Now we have opened a hole in the wall. It's you. I believe in you, I believe in you and we are determined to go on this path with steady steps. I also believe that we will achieve a Türkiye that will transform the 21st century into Türkiye's century and establish its global leadership. We need the energy, talent and dynamism of young people. Believe in yourself, believe in yourself, get the best results in whatever field you want to study.
“DON'T TRUST THE PROMOTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA”
I also find it helpful to express this fact here. In Türkiye, there are always people who look at young people with the mentality of wanting to achieve what they want. You see these in all the coups and coup attempts that interrupted Türkiye's democratic journey from May 27 to September 12. But we don't see it that way. We believe in young people, we believe in the virtue of accompanying young people. And you see these young people provoking right-wing, left-wing, Alevi and Sunni young people and turning our streets into fireballs. You see them trying to overthrow the government under the pretext of trees during the Gezi incident. You see these in the effort to evade criminal organizations that loot public money from the judiciary. Now you see them acting as provocateurs under different masks on social networks. I especially ask our youth to be careful of abusers, enemies of the nation. For the bright future of this country, young people, please don't give them a chance. Protect your own future and the future of your country. If God gives us life, we will achieve more success and victory with you. “I dream of this and I trust each of you for this noble cause.”
The program continues with a question and answer session.
TERRORIST-FREE Türkiye: CLEANUP OPERATION CONTINUES
When reminded of his promise, “Türkiye without terrorism is the greatest legacy we will leave to our youth,” President Erdoğan said the following:
“For many years, Eastern Anatolia and Southeast Anatolia have been rife with terrorism. And this terrorism has spread to the point where our young people, especially our universities, cannot find the opportunity to study in a healthy way here. We have lost many people in these areas. And we said we have to fix this problem. We sat down, assessed with our soldiers and police and talked about how we will build a Türkiye has no terrorism. All our friends, our intelligence, our organizations, our government, our cabinet, quickly and no more.” take it lightly.” We said let's move towards a terror-free Türkiye and we did it. As of now, there may be some remaining caves in both the Southeast Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia regions, but we have cleared everything else. Our friends in parliament have also taken up their duties in this process. We have accelerated these efforts. The cave was empty, the weapons were burned, and now the Southeast and Indochina have peace. “We have confidence, we are confident and now people can easily go to the plateau, the mountains and shepherds can easily graze their sheep and lambs.”
DEFENSE INDUSTRY: WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO
Responding to another question regarding Türkiye's first unmanned combat aircraft, the Bayraktar Kızılelma, President Erdoğan said, “We have seen these days, thank God. We are in a position to achieve results by shooting into the air with Kızılelma and our own missiles.” Erdoğan continued his words as follows:
“Of course, for this, I want to thank the Baykar team very much, on behalf of myself and my country. The more I hear and see how excited they are, the more excited I get. However, this country can do it whenever it wants. Can they do it, but we have more important things to do, let me tell you that. It's not easy, we have a lot of work to do. We are taking many steps in this regard.” regarding this issue, both with the armed forces and the private sector, especially Baykar We continue to invest, Of course we will continue, especially here “It is impossible to put Israel's betrayal aside. But if you ask who and where has the greatest power against these betrayals, this is it. Like I said, I see that faith and trust in your eyes.”
STOP AT GAZA: DO NOT BACK
In the program, a video about “Palestine” was shown, prepared by the Youth Branch of the AK Party. After the video, a student asked Erdogan his thoughts on “whether the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza can sincerely continue.”
Stating that they have taken every possible step on this issue, President Erdoğan said: “Our duty is to resort to the cause. The rest is God's grace. You have just met me. When I was delivering this speech at the United Nations General Assembly, there were Israeli delegates sitting at the table in front of me. I delivered that speech while looking into their faces. You cannot wage war with cowards. We are not cowards.” We said, 'Rely on Allah, follow His judgment. If there is a way, this is the way it is. We have started down this path, thank God the speeches we gave at the United Nations General Assembly have made Gaza more resilient, in the narrow scope of our meeting with Trump, what we said here when Türkiye left its mark on Trump. with the same determination, if we withdraw from this.
