Erdoğan slams CHP leader over remarks on public servants

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized the remarks by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on public servants, saying the statement made is a "crime."

"Kılıçdaroğlu's threat to public officials, I put aside his political weirdness, is also clearly a crime," Erdoğan said at a press conference before departing for Angola on Oct. 17.

His statement is a "clear admission that the CHP mentality is a tutelage mentality," Erdoğan said.

"Inviting the bureaucracy to oppose the specially elected government is nothing but a call for tutelage. Of course, this is not the first such madness of the CHP mentality. This illegal call is a serious threat to public order. They do not know what state government, national will, or democracy is," he stated.

The nation has "revealed its will" for the Presidential Government System, and one of the reasons for this preference is to permanently abolish the tutelage system, he emphasized.

The president said that in the previous parliamentary system, there were always conflicts between the bureaucracy and the elected will.

"The CHP mentality has always used bureaucracy as an instrument to limit the elected will, and of course, we are tired of this as a nation. As our nation was tired of all this, it preferred the presidential system," he said.

The new administrative system prevented the bureaucracy from "doing politics and taking steps against the nation," he said, adding, "The new system abolished the political character of the bureaucracy and turned the bureaucracy into a real administrative bureaucracy."

The "tutelage days" have remained in the history and Turkey as a state of law, Erdoğan said.

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