Erdogan attends opening ceremonies in Agri, Erzurum

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday attended various opening ceremonies in the eastern Turkish cities of Agri and Erzurum. He criticized people who went to meet surrendering terrorist PKK members at the Habur border gate with Iraq. Speaking at a ceremony marking the new academic year at Erzurum’s Ataturk University, Erdogan said, “Nationalism isn’t shouting slogans.” He added, “Nationalism isn’t provocation. Nationalism also isn’t putting a place in an uproar with worthless words. Parties which do politics on the basis of ethnicity have recently stepped up their provocative rhetoric.”