Turkish PM Compares Erdogan to Ottoman Sultan

Date: 27 August 2016 - 21:49

News ID: ۳۰۵۳۹

ANKARA (Press TV) – Turkey’s prime minister has compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - centuries ago.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim made the comparison during the opening of a new bridge over the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul.
Erdogan has "made cars pass beneath sea” as Mehmet the Conqueror carried ships over land, Yildirim said.
He was referring to the Ottoman ruler’s carrying of ships overland to avoid capture during his seizure of Constantinople in 1453 and inauguration under Erdogan in 2013 of a metro line passing beneath the Bosphorus Strait.
Yildirim’s comments came during the opening ceremony of the third bridge over the strait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul, which follows the tradition of the first one built in 1973 and the second in 1988.