Turkish premier demands immediate end to protests
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for an immediate end to the anti-government protests that have swept the country for the past several days. - Erdogan made the remark on Friday in an address to his supporters at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport upon returning from a four-day trip to North Africa.
“I call for an immediate end to the demonstrations, which have lost their democratic credentials and turned into vandalism,” Erdogan said to thousands of cheering supporters who descended on the airport to welcome him home. He thanked his supporters for their restraint in recent days. “You have remained calm, mature and showed common sense,” the premier said, adding that “we’re all going to go home from here… You’re not the type of people to bang pots and pans on the streets.”
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