This explains Erdoğan’s accusation that the protesters in Gezi Park last summer, who demonstrated against his government’s plans to erect a shopping center, were not proper Turks at all. And it explains his astonishing pronouncement earlier this year when he accepted his Justice and Development Party’s nomination to be its presidential candidate: “We are the people.
这就解释了埃尔多安对去年夏天格齐公园（Gezi Park）反对者的指控。他们示威表达对埃尔多安建设购物中心的计划，被埃尔多安称为不配做土耳其人。这也解释了他在今年早些时候接受其所在的正义和发展党（Justice and Development Party）总统候选人提名时令人震惊的话：“我们是人民。你们是什么？”