“We don’t have even a second to lose. We are looking for a new common understanding and a new roadmap out of the president’s meeting with political leaders regarding terrorism,” Boyner said yesterday at a TÜSİAD press conference at which the association presented the intellectual property rights dictionary it has been preparing for two years. She was referring to President Abdullah Gül’s meeting in Ankara on Monday with the leaders of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP).
“I think we all fear beginning the day with news of new acts of terror. But this is unfortunately what is happening,” she said in reference to an explosion yesterday in İstanbul in which suspected terrorists detonated a remote-controlled bomb, killing four people and wounding 12 others on a bus carrying military personnel and their families.
“Today four families received horrible news, but Turkey as a whole is aching. I would like to repeat the call I made yesterday in Trabzon. Let’s leave aside our political differences. Our most important asset -- domestic peace -- has been threatened,” she said. On Monday Boyner had put the problem of terrorism on top of the list of Turkey’s problems as she had said TÜSİAD was saddened by the recent deaths of soldiers killed in attacks by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). She also said the state has to protect its citizens’ right to life, and if it cannot do that, then it should be held accountable.
