Erdogan on Gülenists: They are Worse than Shiites

[Syrian Lion]

Youtube's description of the video:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was the guest on the pro-government 24 Canli TV's live program. During the televised broadcast, he was asked about the strife between his government and the Fethullah Gülen community, and he answered by considering Gülenists as worse than Shiites.

The Fethullah Gülen community is led by Gülen, a conservative Sunni currently residing in Pennsylvania and who was an ally of Erdoğan until three months ago. After their power struggle over key state positions, Gülenists declared war against him and started to leak some critical phone calls showing Erdoğan's absolute control over the media and his involvement in a lot of corruption.

It is also worthy of mentioning that Shiites are Turkey's largest religious minority, constituting around 7-30% of the total population.

AKP is disgrace to Turkey... AKP leader bashing other religions and beliefs because they don't fit their agenda.... what a great shame...

 

[ResurgentIran]

He also named a bridge in Turkey after an Ottoman Sultan, that murdered many Shiites.
Its too bad that Erdogan behave in sectarian manner. :/

 

[Syrian Lion]

He also named a bridge in Turkey after an Ottoman Sultan, that murdered many Shiites.
Its too bad that Erdogan behave in sectarian manner. :/

erDOGan is lost, he doesn't know what to do... he is trying to bring back the Ottoman empire, and he is failing.... he is creating chaos not just in Turkey, but in countries around Turkey....

 

[atatwolf]

He gave an ottoman slap in the face of Gullenist and shiits with on whip haha

 

[SpArK]

That is racist.

 

[Syrian Lion]

He gave an ottoman slap in the face of Gullenist and shiits with on whip haha

so tell us what did AKP achieve with their disgraceful comment? a slap to the face? good to know... erDOGan is sectarian who is going to cause a lot of problems for Turkey... question for you? do you hate Turkish shia? because your comment illustrates racism and hatred...

 

[atatwolf]

so tell us what did AKP achieve with their disgraceful comment? a slap to the face? good to know... erDOGan is sectarian who is going to cause a lot of problems for Turkey... question for you? do you hate Turkish shia? because your comment illustrates racism and hatred...

Turkey is the less sectarian of all middle-eastern countries. While satanic countries like Iran waging a sectarian war against sunni, you can't expect us to be neutral. We stay neutral as much as we can. You don't see war between sunni and shia in Turkey the same way in Syria and Iraq. There you have your answer.

 

[vK_man]

Turkey is the less sectarian of all middle-eastern countries. While satanic countries like Iran waging a sectarian war against sunni, you can't expect us to be neutral. We stay neutral as much as we can. You don't see war between sunni and shia in Turkey the same way in Syria and Iraq. There you have your answer.

I didn't know you suffered from sectarian ideas. If you want balkanization of turkey ,sectarianism is good.

 

[Infoman]

Sounds like something the Saudis would say.

Anyways both turkey and Saudi Arabia support al Qaeda rebels in Syria, this is not a secret anymore.

 

[atatwolf]

I didn't know you suffered from sectarian ideas. If you want balkanization of turkey ,sectarianism is good.

The facts speak for itself.We don't have those issues.

 

[Infoman]

Turkey is the less sectarian of all middle-eastern countries. While satanic countries like Iran waging a sectarian war against sunni, you can't expect us to be neutral. We stay neutral as much as we can. You don't see war between sunni and shia in Turkey the same way in Syria and Iraq. There you have your answer.

if I'm not mistaken the Sunni population in turkey is so large, the Shias would have no chance anyway.

That is the reason there is no sectarian tension in turkey.

 

[atatwolf]

if I'm not mistaken the Sunni population in turkey is so large, the Shias would have no chance anyway.

That is the reason there is no sectarian tension in turkey.

We have other sectarian group called Alevi. They are very big group. We don't have fights because we respect each otehr.

 

[flamer84]

if I'm not mistaken the Sunni population in turkey is so large, the Shias would have no chance anyway.

That is the reason there is no sectarian tension in turkey.

More likely because most turks really don't care if you're a Shia or other sect.

Erdogan's words are dangerous though,it could create a divide between people.

 

[vK_man]

More likely because most turks really don't care if you're a Shia or other sect.

Erdogan's words are dangerous though,it could create a divide between people.

erdogan does care about this. Now with al qaeda forces in turkey ,Erdogan has a second mercenary army in his hands.Could he use it against kemalists who are mostly opposed to him? Time will tell.

 

[Ayush]

irresponsible statement