The Turkish National Assembly (Parliament) celebrated the Day of the Republic and National Unity of July 15, that is, in 2016, which is an official holiday in the country this year.
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Outside its imposing building, which was hit three times by air in 2019 and architecturally refers to the strict “lines” of state buildings of the 1930s -it is the third building that hosts the Turkish National Assembly by its foundation in 1920, in 1920 He was revived in front of journalistic microphone testimonies of the attempted coup d’Etat, while dozens of giant photos of the caused buildings in the capital’s buildings were hung on the surrounding walls, the tanks that unexpectedly occupied the streets of Ankara and Konstantinos 2016.
In the crowded event hall of the National Assembly -the “Step” distinguished in the first row his president’s wife and his government partner, Devlet Bachseli -after hugging children and grandchildren of the members of the co -existent and co -righteous politicians. Turkish national anthem and heard the prayer of an imam, referred to the “glorious epic, the victory with bare hands over tanks, planes and bombs”.
In the hall of the National Assembly there was the golden color and the wood under the oversized chandeliers. In the background, next to a natural size portrait of Kemal Ataturk and paintings with the equestrian army of the Young Turks, he stood a dusty tail piano.
Following Mr Erdogan’s speech, representatives of the international media went to the point where the signs of coup d’état attacks on the National Assembly were kept intact, with open holes on the walls and glass. A few meters farther, between the memory museum and the Turkish National Assembly, one of the vehicles destroyed by the street fighting stands, as a public sculpture, in a unbreakable glass.
It is clear that the Turkish president wants to keep in every way alive the memory of the attempted coup in 2016, among other things, and, according to Turkish analysts, as an element of concentration around the government and his face. This is why two impressive museums were created in Ankara – the largest – and in Constantinople, where schools flock daily.
Something similar happened yesterday, on the day of the anniversary, in the Pharaohs (more than 65,000 square meters), a futuristic Memorial Museum of Memory of July 15, in the Turkish capital, next to the spectacular neo-Ottoman aesthetic presidential palace (Palace). Russia, Switzerland, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, N. Africa, V. Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc.), which had been specifically invited for the anniversary.
In an amphitheater of the National Assembly, a commemorative ceremony was held earlier on the same day for all parliamentary groups, at a time when the relations of the ruling AKP and the People’s Republican Party (CHP) are more strained than ever, as they are unable to arrest the mayor, Corruption.