Discussion on Education and Alcohol Policies

I get the message that he is unhappy with some of the measures he implemented—

For example.

—from some of the measures he implemented.

Because, as a newspaper, we also—

What was it? Go on, tell me, tell me.

Um, from education to alcohol

laws and bans, we see everyone as having taken action

against a ban concerning them, whatever it may be,

Because the people we see in our, um, various fields

really have no political, um,

affiliation with anywhere at all.

And I think these people have already done what surprises everyone.

Look—

The CHP also— I'm sorry, I interrupted you, but, um,

also

most of the people in these fields don't support the CHP either.

They are people with no mainstream opposition line, who support no organization.

We interpret everyone's anger, perhaps, as stemming from the government's failure to ask why these people

rose up, and what is going on,

we interpret it as everyone asking that question.

Wait a minute, you've now come to a very interesting point.

There is absolutely no CHP here now.

So who is there?

Who else is there? Were you able to identify them?

There are lots of young people in the streets. There are university students.

No, some of them may not support the CHP.

Don't university students have ideals, ideologies?

Yes, then why did they rise up? Why did housewives rise up?

Don't they have an ideology?

But—

Right now, right now, right now

at home, there are at least fifty percent

of this country whom we are keeping there by force.

And we tell them, please be patient, don't fall for these schemes.

Now, you say education. Is it because, in education,

we have taken steps unseen in the history of the Republic

that we

are being criticized right now? Did you see a banner there about education?

Tell me.

Can you tell me?

You, from here…

This is how you inform Reuters, or this is how you send the information you collect.

the information you collect.

And right now in Turkey,

we have brought education, in terms of all

its physical conditions, to the ideal point,

establishing universities in all 81 provinces,

and, in addition to all this, opening 400,000 classrooms

and appointing

all our teachers and so on

and, in addition, at universities,

we have established a system that has

abolished tuition fees entirely.

And right now, through the Fatih Project, we are working

to bring our students, our children, together with advanced technology.

You immediately stand up and say, “In education…”

I did not see a single thing there related to education.

I saw nothing.

I was there—

You say it is an alcohol ban.

Everyone's personal choice—

There is no alcohol ban. There is regulation of alcohol.

What is it? It is what exists in the advanced, developed countries around the world.

Whatever the practice is…

Look, in France, you're Reuters' correspondent.

Look at the practices in France.

There, you'll see how advanced these practices are.

We are implementing these practices, and we will continue to implement them

from now on as well.

And we are working to eliminate alcohol sales

at gas stations

on these highways, including the sale of alcohol for consumption on and off the premises,

through regulations,

so that we can minimize traffic accidents in transportation,

and that is what we are striving to do.

Previously, the primary cause of traffic accidents

was, first and foremost, driving under the influence of alcohol.

Isn't it our duty as the state to take measures against this?

Please read Article 58 of the Constitution. That fifty-eighth

article clearly tells you what kind of duty it assigns to the state on this matter.

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Yes.