President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a statement at the Administrators’ Day Program held at the Presidential Complex.
The highlights of President Erdoğan’s statements are as follows:
On behalf of my country and my nation, I would like to thank our governors, deputy governors and district governors for their services so far, and I wish them success in their future duties.
Our state vision was never built on an understanding based on materiality, on the contrary, it was the manifestation of a set of values that gave importance to meaning and content and was built on justice and conscience.
The subject of our understanding of the state is human beings, human dignity. That’s why we call it an alliance of humanity, we try to cure the problems of the oppressed, we say Türkiye is the name of hope.
Turkish Civil Administration, shaped by this belief, is a deep-rooted institution that establishes the peace, welfare and security of the people.
The blessing of the nation is the most powerful treasure of the state. God forbid, the one who receives the curse of the nation will prosper neither in this world nor in the afterlife. It does not suit us to pursue only daily accounts; this is not tolerated in the founding codes of our state.
If we want to make goodness, prosperity, development, brotherhood and justice prevail throughout our country from east to west, from north to south, we need to start from our cities.
Being a local administrator is not a duty to be performed between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. You are also expected to be on the same page, at the same time, and on the same page with the citizens.
I specifically ask each of you not to be stuck in your office rooms, but to keep your hearts, your doors, and your phones open to our citizens. The ideal civil administrators for us and our nation are administrators equipped with this nobility.
We were wounded and devastated by one of the greatest natural disasters of the century. We saw very clearly there how important crisis and disaster management is. As a government, we are taking every necessary precaution to avoid encountering similar situations again, God forbid.
Even the long-term, just rule of a just sultan cannot undo the damage caused to the public in one day by officials who do not perform their duties correctly.
Today, I would like to remind you once again that you, the governors who serve as my representative in our provinces, have very vital duties.
Neither the one-party fascist mentality nor the February 28 period practices that left deep wounds in our memories have a place in today’s Turkey.SYRIA MESSAGE
With the collapse of the 61-year Baath dictatorship in Syria and the end of the 13-year massacre, a new era has begun.
The damage caused to this country by the 13-year massacre policy alone exceeds 500 billion dollars, and our teams visiting Syria state that the situation on the ground is much worse than expected.
The statement of the leader of the main opposition party, ‘Assad is gone, let the refugees go too’, is an example of pure ignorance rather than unconscionability.
We said that we would not make this noble nation, the orphan of the orphans, experience the shame of the Boraltan Bridge disaster again, and thank God, we did not.
No matter what the opposition or racist circles say, we will not take approaches that will harm our economy, trade, production and our 13-year humanitarian policy.
We will provide all kinds of convenience to our Syrian brothers who want to return to their homeland voluntarily, but we will not make the mistake of sending anyone by force.
We will not allow anyone to tarnish the stance we have taken at the expense of risking our political future in Turkey’s most critical elections.
There is now a new administration in Syria, and the future of Syria will be shaped around the founding will of this administration. We will continue our relations with Syria on the principle of mutual respect.
Our aim is to permanently eliminate the 40-year humpback that our country has been saddled with. With the Syrian revolution, a historical window of opportunity has opened for both our country and our region.
Source: www.star.com.tr
