25.08.2016 Elazığ
TOBB President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, along with the Customs and Commerce Minister Bülent Tüfenkci, paid a condolatory visit to Elazığ. The visit began with Elazığ Governor Murat Zorluoğlu followed by a visit to the Provincial Police Headquarters.
Hisarcıklıoğlu,
Minister Tüfenkci and those accompanying them visited those wounded in the
attack at the hospital to boost morale.
- Message of unity at the governorate
Also present at the
visit to Elazığ Governor Murat Zorluoğlu in addition to TOBB President M. Rifat
Hisarcıklıoğlu and Customs and Commerce Minister Bülent Tüfenkci were AK Party
Representatives Harun Karaca, Erdoğan Özegen and Ejder Açıkkapı.
Minister Tüfenkci
said in his speech that the attack on the Provincial Police Headquarters has
united Elazığ against terror as a single heart and voice, an example to all of
Turkey.
- Visiting those wounded at the Police
Department
TOBB President M.
Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, Customs and Commerce Minister Bülent Tüfenkci and AK
Party Representatives Harun Karaca, Erdoğan Özegen visited the Police
Headquarters. Afterwards they visited those wounded during the attack.
Stating that the
operation in Syria is coordinated with coalition powers, Tüfenkci emphasized
that this is well within Turkey’s rights to defend itself and to secure its
borders by sweeping ISIS forces from the region, “We’ve always defended the
territorial integrity of Syria. This is why we have acted.”
- Visit to Martyr Sönmez’s family and
chamber/exchange
Afterwards,
Hisarcıklıoğlu visited Elazığ CCI Chair İdris Alan and Elazığ Commodity
Exchange Chair Mehmet Ali Dumandağ as well as Mehmet Sönmez to extend their
condolences, the father of Ömer Sönmez who was the police officer killed druing
an IED attack on by the PKK in Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa.
Following the visit
to the father of the martyr, Hisarcıklıoğlu and Tüfenkci visited tradesmen of
the district and extended their condolences for the attack on the police
headquarters.
The delegation then
visited Elazığ Union of Craftsmen and Tradesmen Chair Cemil Erdem. Minister
Tüfenkci stated during the visit that the attack of August 18th was
aimed at the peace, unity and solidarity of the city, which was met with a
united outcry of its people in the streets.