Erdogan: We won't allow Macedonia name change | | | |
[TD="colspan: 2"]Sunday, 02 June 2013[/TD]
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Macedonia will always be Macedonia, and Turkey will always be on its side.
Erdogan said Turks and Macedonians are brothers and that Turkey will always stand behind the Macedonians during a conference organized by the club of Balkan immigrants.
"What we've forgotten in 1912 now we can fix," Erdogan said, according to whom, "Greece blocked Macedonia to join NATO because of the name, but Turkey will always be with Macedonia and won't allow name change.
"For us, Ankara and Skopje have no difference and will never leave our brothers alone, we will always be with them, and will always help and stand behind them," Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan said during the conference transmitted live on Turkish TV.[/TD]