Kenan Evren Zitate

Ahmet Kenan Evren war ein türkischer General und vom 12. September 1980 bis zum 9. November 1989 7. Staatspräsident der türkischen Republik. Ins Amt gelangte er durch den Militärputsch von 1980.

✵ 17. Juli 1917 – 9. Mai 2015
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“All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?”

An Uneasy Honeymoon, Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,952783-2,00.html (Sep. 29, 1980)
Said Evren in defense of the decision to take power after the 1980 military coup.

“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”

On 17 September 1980 http://books.google.com/books?id=XW7bJ0b3kyEC&pg=PA43&dq=Kenan+Evren&lr=&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U25I1osEHZanEArEIRSNYhVUys7NQ#PPA43,M1, five days after the coup, Evren comments on the political leaders of the standing political parties.
From Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change by Meliha Benli Altunisik, (p. 43, Routledge, 2005).

“Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time.”

Strong Army Medicine, Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,922169-2,00.html (Dec. 08, 1980)
Remark by Evren at a 1980 meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey.

“I sometimes feel jealous of countries like the U. S. and Great Britain that have two neighbors. … When you have two neighbors, you have two problems. When you have eight neighbors, you have eight problems.”

The Turkish Times, (News section, April 1, 2002, Year 14 No. 297) http://www.theturkishtimes.com/archive/02/04_01/index.html
Remarks from a statement responding to the announcement of the Kenan Evren Eminent Scholar Chair in Turkish Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

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