Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of ErdoÄŸanian democracy.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the political madness and social farce. In fact, our age of tragedy which has been represented by the so-called “Marxists” in the Sinhalese community and “liberalists” in Tamil community since the 70s to the late 90s, has been replaced by the age of farce.

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the Turks are even sicker.

[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.