"Ja sam lojalan republici, sekularizmu, principima demokratske, socijalne države u okviru vladavine prava, kako u osnovi piše u ustavu," izjavio je on u intervjuu objavljenom u četvrtak u novinama Milliyet .
"I am loyal to the republic, to secularism, to the principles of a democratic, social state ruled by law, as stated in the constitution in essence," he said in an interview published in the Milliyet newspaper Thursday.