AHMET KENAN EVREN


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Ahmet Kenan Evren

All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.
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Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?
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Turkey was at the time, a democratic Islamic state that was not very respectful of civil rights. They had a well-organized, fanatic and brutal PKK terrorist movement to contend with. The also had fundamentalist Islamic terrorists who would destroy the secular democracy that Turkey had built. He raised the classic issue of whether those who would deny civil rights to all, should have the benefit of civil rights while they attack and undermine the democratic society be undemocratic means.

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All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?
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Ahmet Kenan Evren

I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U.S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. ... When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.
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Ahmet Kenan Evren

Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.
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Ahmet Kenan Evren
  • Born: July 17, 1917
  • Died: May 9, 2015
  • Nationality: Turkish
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Ahmet Kenan Evren was a Turkish politician and military officer, who served as the seventh President of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup.