ANKARA - AKP President and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who spoke at his party's group meeting said: "Turkey will continue its struggle until there are not one single terrorist in Syria. We have an agreement with Amerika and Russia abd we have only one condition to honour that agreement" and implied to continue the operation against North and East Syria.
Erdoğan said: "As Turkey, we have been targeted since 2013 with uninterrupted attacks. During the Gezi incidents, a campaign was started which has no logic to it. We did not succumb to those vandals and cleaned them off our streets.Then we had to deal with FETÖ and their coup attempt to our security forces and judiciary. We did not succumb to those either. At the same time, we continued to come on top from all the elections we participated in. Then they turned to weapons. The July 15 coup attempt was recorded as the most glorious resistance in the history of democracy. "
In his speech, Erdoğan also reacted to the Armenian Genocide bill approved by the US House of Representatives.
Erdoğan said: "I am calling out to the west. Asana terror organization carried out around 100 attacks. Neither USA nor Europe took a stance against it. Again, we have suffered from terror since 1970's. They tried to use this in their advantage instead of appreciating our struggle. They all watched while our borders were harassing our borders with mortars. They took back the air defense systems in our country instead of supporting us. They sided with the barbarians intead of us. But they were dissappointed and got rude."
President Tayyip Erdoğan answered journalists' questions after his speech at the group meeting.
Regarding the USA visit to be held on November 13, Erdoğan said: "We will have a telephone conversation with Trump. I will decide after that call."