In his speech at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, President Erdoğan of Türkiye voiced his hope that the 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum would lead to auspicious results, particularly for our region and the world.
Erdoğan said that the mechanisms tasked with protecting human rights and global security remain ineffective in the face of the most severe attacks.
President Erdoğan of Türkiye said, "I hope that the discussions, assessments and exchanges of views to be made as part of the Diplomacy Forum, as well as the side events and bilateral meetings planned throughout the forum, will prove fruitful in terms of participants, representatives and content." I want to emphasise one particular point: as Türkiye, we do not limit the Antalya Diplomacy Forum to the confines of the concept of diplomatic engagement. We consider this organisation a platform for in-depth discussions on where the world is headed, the values around which humanity can unite, and what new areas of interaction might emerge. Today, we see that the Antalya Diplomacy Forum has become a shared platform for global wisdom, conscience, and, above all, hope for the future.
Today, the world is experiencing not only a crisis of power but also a crisis of direction. At this point, it is clear that we are at a serious and dangerous threshold. The system purported to be rules-based remains silent where rules are violated. The mechanisms tasked with protecting human rights and global security remain ineffective—and often indifferent—in the face of the most severe attacks. The actual issue here is selective justice, instrumentalised principles, and our shared values that have been reduced to mere tools of power dynamics."