(MENAFN- Arab Times) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Sunday to purge the "virus" within state bodies, during a speech at the funeral of victims killed during the coup bid he blames on his enemy Fethullah Gulen. "We will continue to clean the virus from all state bodies because this virus has spread. Unfortunately like a cancer, this virus has enveloped the state. "We knew this and told all relevant authorities," he warned thousands of mourners at the Fatih mosque in Istanbul.
During a passionate speech, the president paid tribute to the "martyrs" of democracy, insisting that the people were stronger. "They may have tanks but we have our faith. We will not leave the squares " but we will continue defiantly. "I said this yesterday, the people's demand for democracy cannot be swept aside. This is your right." Meanwhile, Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah renewed Sunday Kuwait's stand in solidarity with the Turkish Government, in the aftermath of the futile bid to bring it down.
The Acting Premier Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled renewed Kuwait's supportive stance on Ankara's side during a meeting with the Turkish Ambassador to Kuwait Murad Tameer, where he hailed the Kuwaiti- Turkish relations and affirmed Kuwait's backing for all decisions made by Ankara to enhance stability and protect all of its legitimate institutions in the country.
The ambassador handed Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled a letter from the Turkish Prime Minister, addressed to His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah concerning bilateral relations and ways to enhance them, and also discussing issues of mutual interest. The meeting was attended by Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, Assistant Foreign Minister for European Affairs Dr Rashed Al-Adwani and a number of the ministry's officials.
Kuwaiti charter flights brought back home 730 Kuwaitis from Istanbul yesterday the Special Forces in the crackdown was parallel to the relief that followed retrieval of governance from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on June 30, 2013 although the roles were different in both countries. In the case of the latter, the military was responsive to the desire of citizens by protecting the revolution. It was a record for the Egyptian military that displayed nationalistic posture throughout the crisis which started on Jan 25, 2011.
This happened despite the global notion that the military has always been a tool for the government in crushing public unrest. The Egyptian military monitored the suffering of citizens throughout the oneyear Brotherhood era. The suffering was either through open and organized looting of national wealth by converting the agricultural economy into private ownership of members of the Guidance Office or preventing judicial independence.
It also included their grinning fangs as they threaten to export their revolution to the GCC countries, similar to what the Mullah regime in Iran has been doing for 37 years. The Egyptian rescue movement changed the prevalent concepts about the role of the military in Third World countries. If the Turkish people's support for the Armed Forces foiled the coup attempt, then the Egyptian Army's support for the June 30 Revolution was a superior expression of its national role.
Throughout the last three years, the Brotherhood Group and its mouthpieces tried to portray what happened in 2013 as a military coup and assisted those who move in their orbit of terrorist gangs to destabilize security through mobile terrorist operations. Nevertheless, they failed to impose their destructive ideas on the Egyptians.
Actually, their isolation and rejection among the people increased. The Egyptian experiment is compared with that of the Turkish but in another angle - the people's protection of the Army prevented its transformation into an obedient tool in the hands of the authority. In both cases, the results included protection of democracy and fortification of the people's will. In Ankara today, a big workshop is waiting for Erdogan especially in the aspect of reviewing his policies and allies in the region. He has to realize the magnitude of the force represented by the Turkish- Saudi-Egyptian alliance in the Arab and Muslim world, even the whole world.
This tripartite regional force is capable of creating a huge protective and deterrence system, far from what Erdogan could imagine. He has been gambling to join the European Union for years, whereas the Europeans did not leave any stumbling block but threw it towards Turkey's way to prevent the latter from joining their camp. He has to abandon his principle of assisting the Brotherhood coup-plotters who usurped the authority by rigging the 2012 elections and impose themselves as rulers of Egypt. At present, there is no other way for Erdogan but to look around his natural environment and surroundings to become an important factor in helping Egypt and Saudi Arabia in their bid to eradicate the chaos in the Arab and Muslim world.
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