The enemies of Turkey want to take revenge for the conquest of Istanbul in 1453, said the President of the country Tayyip Erdogan.
“Nobody can destroy our country. After the conquest of Istanbul the Turks located in Anatolia and Thrace and are not going to withdraw from these lands… This nation a century ago gave a decent answer foes. I am sure that the 100-th anniversary of the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 2023), our country will be included in the top ten most developed economies in the world,” said Erdogan, speaking in Istanbul at a meeting dedicated to 563-th anniversary of the capture by the Ottoman troops of this city, his quotes Agency Anadolu.
The Turkish leader added that after a hundred years the country was transformed, turning from the assignee “sick man”, which was then called the Ottoman Empire, one of the leading economies in the world. According to Erdogan, certain States condoning dirty game in Syria” and “support terrorists”.
“What business of Russia and Iran to Syria? What they do there? What are you doing on the Syrian land, us soldiers in uniform with the emblems of terrorists (self-defense forces of Syrian Kurds )? “Islamic state” is an artificially created structure, and under the pretext of fighting there are games whose purpose is very clear. Certain forces are trying to separate Turkey from the Middle East and North Africa,” said Erdogan.
Earlier, the President of Turkey criticized the U.S. for its support of the Kurds. Dissatisfaction with Erdogan’s called pictures of American soldiers in camouflage uniforms with symbols of the self-defense forces of the Kurdish democratic Union Party.
The Istanbul meeting was devoted to the anniversary of the fall of the Byzantine Empire. In 1453, Turkish Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople and declared it the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
