Erdo?an complains of anti-presidency alliance

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has shed more light on the nefarious web of legal and illegal allies arrayed against his grand plans to impose a presidential system on Turkey while noting the axis did not represent the ?nation?s will.?

?They are belittling the presidential system. Actually, by doing so, [the alliance] is displaying its own weakness and incapability but is not aware of it. When we look at who is not supporting presidential system ? here is what we see: the terrorist organization [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party/PKK] doesn?t want it, Pennsylvania [Erdo?an?s ally-turned-foe, U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen] doesn?t want it, those who call people ?[idiots] scratching their bellies,? don?t want it and the Armenian diaspora doesn?t want it,? Erdo?an said in an address to a bus company federation, while referring to a columnist who once termed people who vote for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as ignorant people who ?scratch their bellies.?

Erdo?an also said some members of the media disliked his gathering with bus drivers.

?Plus, opposition parties who don?t feel embarrassed at being on the same line with these [groups] don?t want the presidential system. Look, there is only one thing which is not present in this coalition. What is that? The nation is not there,? Erdo?an said.

His description of the anti-presidential coalition was reminiscent of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s earlier description of unified opposing forces against the AKP. 

Davuto?lu said over the weekend that his party was fighting against a ?six-team gang,? referring to the three opposition parties, as well as two illegal organizations and the Gülen movement.

Davuto?lu said he was fighting against the...