President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye said during his meeting with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan that Türkiye would continue to support efforts to achieve peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia. According to Ermenihaber.am, Erdoğan travelled to Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to attend the 26th Summit of the Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The two leaders discussed bilateral relations between Türkiye and Azerbaijan, as well as regional and global developments. President Erdoğan stated that, under the current circumstances in the region, the importance of the steps Türkiye and...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye said during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek that Ankara and Moscow were looking forward to the opening of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and would take further joint steps in this direction. During the meeting, Erdoğan said: “The Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is of great importance in our relations. We have reached the stage of completing the first reactor. We are awaiting the opening and commissioning of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant. Once it is opened,...
Archaeologists have uncovered an 11,000-year-old stone sculpture showing a human figure seated on a leopard at Karahantepe, a neolithic site in southeastern Türkiye, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy said Tuesday. In a social media post, Ersoy said the 70-cm sculpture, which was unearthed at Karahantepe near the city of Sanliurfa this year, was found on a bench against the wall of a circular structure about 3 meters in diameter. Minister Ersoy called the find a "unique sculpture" and said its artistic style had not previously been identified at the prehistoric settlement. Karahantepe is part of an archaeological site...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed during a phone call on Monday to develop a roadmap for deepening their bilateral relations, particularly in the defence sector. In a statement on social media, President Lula said, "We agreed to establish a Strategic Council at the vice-presidential level to develop a roadmap for deepening bilateral relations," and emphasised that both leaders celebrated the "recent ratification" of the Defence Industry Cooperation Agreement reached by Ankara and Brasília. The...
Teknofest Blue Homeland 2026, a defense and technology festival centered on naval capabilities, opened Thursday at the Golcuk Naval Shipyard Command in Türkiye's northwestern province of Kocaeli. Earlier in the day, Turkish naval vessels sailed through the Izmit Gulf near Istanbul in a display of the country's maritime capabilities. The flotilla included the TCG Anadolu, the Turkish Navy's largest ship, frigates, submarines and support vessels. The fleet also staged a series of simulated military operations, including boarding and seizing a vessel and covert attacks on maritime facilities. Large crowds gathered along the shipyard's waterfront to watch the demonstrations. Running through...
In the lead-up to the 31st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP31), to be held in Türkiye in November 2026, Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Murat Kurum has maintained an active international engagement programme, participating in 36 international meetings to date. In the context of COP31, Türkiye is calling on other countries to support an “Implementation COP” that goes beyond discussions at international meetings and focuses on implementation and delivering tangible results on the ground. Türkiye has presented a 10-point Action Agenda for COP31, with "Zero Waste" as its...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi held a phone conversation of about 20 minutes with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the afternoon of 19 August to discuss various issues, particularly the developments in Iran. Regarding the Strait of Hormuz, which is critical for oil transportation, Prime Minister Takaichi said, "It is important to ensure free and safe navigation without any additional cost.” President Erdoğan replied, "Our views are entirely in line with one another." Takaichi also said, "We greatly appreciate the efforts of Türkiye, which has taken on the role of mediator to date. Japan will act in close cooperation with...
The Presidency's Directorate of Communications stated that the allegations made against Türkiye by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were intended to legitimise Israel's unlawful attacks targeting Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In a statement issued Wednesday via the Turkish social media platform "NSosyal", the Directorate of Communications emphasised that the accusations against Türkiye in the Israeli Prime Minister's statement stem from Netanyahu's intention to continue his expansionist policies, which are destabilising the region, ahead of the Israeli elections scheduled for next October. The Directorate of Communications underscored that Türkiye, like the vast majority...
The Directorate of Communications of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye organised the "Hacı Bektaş Veli Commemoration Events International Media Programme" in the Hacıbektaş district of Nevşehir province. The Directorate of Communications announced that the programme in question offered international media representatives the opportunity to become closely acquainted with Bektashism, a key element of the shared cultural and religious heritage that emerged in Anatolia and, over time, spread to various regions, particularly the Balkans. Twenty journalists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Greece attended the two-day event. On the first day of...