President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the Graduation Ceremony of Police Vocational Colleges in Ankara. “WE WILL ALWAYS UPHOLD THE SACRED MEMORY OF OUR MARTYRS” Recalling that Türkiye marked last week the seventh anniversary of the July 15 coup attempt, President Erdoğan said: “Seven years ago, we turned a dark night that started with the sounds of planes and guns into a morning brighter than snow thanks to our nation’s resistance. We, all together as the 85 million, remembered once again our July 15 revival, which was inscribed in the history of democracy with golden letters. While the unabated suffering caused by our losses tore our hearts out, our fury further increased in the face of the magnitude of the treason we faced. We experienced the pride of challenging tanks and endured the pain of being shot by our own guns at the same time. We once again announced to the whole world that we shall never forget the July 15 even if 70 years pass, let alone seven years. We shall never forget the treason committed against the Directorate of Special Operations and the Directorate of Aviation, in particular. We will always uphold the sacred memory of our martyrs.” “PARTICIPATION IN THE SEPARATIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HAS ALMOST COME TO A STOPPING POINT” Stressing that participation in the separatist terrorist organization has almost come to a stopping point, President Erdoğan said: “We have paralyzed it not only inside our borders but also in Iraq and Syria. Within the framework of our strategy of eliminating terror at its source, wherever there is a terrorist formation, we immediately destroy it. We make members of the separatist organization pay amply for the martyrs' blood they shed and for the pain they inflict on our citizens. We held, are holding, and will hold anyone complicit in the martyrdom of our police officer Fethi Sekin, our diplomat Osman Köse and many other heroes of ours to account one by one for their baseness. We are determined to break the dirty hands encroaching on Türkiye, no matter where they are. Our aim is to make sure that terrorist organizations can no longer pose a threat to our country.”