In ŞIRNAK, a march and torchlight procession with the 107-meter-long Turkish flag was held within the scope of the July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day events.

As part of the July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day events, a march and torchlight procession was held with the 107-meter-long Turkish flag. Governor Birol Ekici, Mayor Mehmet Yarka, 23rd Infantry Division Commander Major General Rıfat Dönel, Provincial Gendarmerie Commander Brigadier General Zafer Tombul, Provincial Police Chief Volkan Sazak, Rector Prof. attended the torchlight procession starting from Ömer Kabak Square. Dr. Abdurrahim Alkış, representatives of political parties and non-governmental organizations, military officers and citizens attended. People from Şırnak carried the 107-meter-long Turkish flag to Cumhuriyet Square. In the program that continued in Cumhuriyet Square, a moment of silence was observed and the National Anthem was sung. After the recitation of the Holy Quran, poems were read and various shows were performed. Then, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's speech was followed on giant screens set up in the area. The Turkish flag carried in the 15 July Martyrs Banner Run was delivered to Governor Birol Ekici by National Athletes from Şırnak.

'IT HAS OPENED A NEW PAGE FOR OUR COUNTRY'

In his speech at the program, Governor Ekici wished mercy to the martyrs and said, "10 years ago today, our people wrote an epic together. Today, we have come together to commemorate that epic. As we all know, the treacherous FETO terrorist organization treacherously infiltrated the bureaucracy, army, security and all institutions of our state like a cancer cell, creating a parallel state structure and serving its extension, the imperialists. This As a result of its activities, of course, this expected coup organization planned the coup and returned the weapons our nation took to our nation and the weapons it bought to our citizens, closing the bridges, bombing the front of our Presidential complex, more importantly, bombing the Turkish Grand National Assembly, bombing the Police Special Operations Directorate, opening fire on our people from helicopters, pointing tanks, shooting, causing 253 of our citizens to be martyred and more than 2,700 of our citizens to become veterans. However, with the will and call of our President, our nation, unlike previous coups, staged a coup and almost repelled them. If we consider what we achieved by preventing this coup, what the coup plotters actually wanted to do was to bring our country to its knees with the Arab Spring that started in 2010. If you ask what would have happened if we had not repelled the coup that day, we should look at Syria. We need to look at Iraq. We need to see that whatever is being tried to be done to Iran today, the same scenarios will be played on us by FETO, the treacherous FETO terrorist organization. Thank God, our nation has opened a new page for our nation and our country by standing upright, under the leadership of our President, and preventing the coup. What is this new page? This new page is the page of 'Turkey Century' and 'Terror-Free Turkey'. he said.