Addressing the opening ceremony of the Şule Yüksel Şenler Foundation’s service building, Erdoğan said: “We have ensured across our country a climate of peace in which no one is marginalized due to their faith, beard, hair or lifestyle. Today, our women can assume responsibilities in every sphere of life without experiencing any discrimination because of their outfit.”

Noting that the service building has been planned and equipped in such a manner as to meet every kind of needs, Erdoğan said: “With its meeting hall, multipurpose education area, research library and cafeteria as well as its workshops for informatics, technology, design and fashion, the service building will serve as a place frequented by our youth. The doors of the foundation, located next to the compound of Eyüp Sultan, a spiritual guardian of Istanbul, will be wide open to all women and citizens, particularly our young girls.”

“We have ended anti-democratic practices that cast a shadow over our democracy”

Describing their goal as to elevate Türkiye to the league of giants in every field from rights and freedoms to reforms, Erdoğan stated: “Our Century of Türkiye vision symbolizes not only our covenant with the nation regarding the future but also our determination to elevate our country above the level of contemporary civilizations. We have already launched over the past two decades the majority of the initiatives that would make this auspicious ideal come true. We have torn apart one by one the chains of tutelage imposed on the national will. We have ended antidemocratic practices that cast a shadow over our democracy.”

Erdoğan further stressed: “We have ensured across our country a climate of peace in which no one is marginalized due to their faith, beard, hair or lifestyle. Today, our women can assume responsibilities in every sphere of life without experiencing any discrimination because of their outfit. Our young girls with headscarf can work at the highest echelons of the public services, academia or business life. No one is pushed to choose between their faith and their career or between their political views and professions so long as they are not involved in violence or terrorism. Everyone can speak and write freely within the limits of law and legitimacy, and freely express their views no matter how marginal. We seek to further expand women’s domain of rights and freedoms with a step we are about to take. This reform process will, so to speak, be crowned with victory if the constitutional amendment bill, which we have introduced to the parliament a short while ago, is enacted.”. (ILKHA)