President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited the exhibition "Life Goes On, Art Goes On". President Erdoğan, who is in Geneva to attend the 1st Global Refugee Forum, visited the exhibition “Life Goes On, Art Goes On” at the UN Office. Fecir Alptekin, Member of Presidential Culture and Arts Policies Board, introduced the exhibition compiled of paintings created by Syrian artists living in Turkey. President Erdoğan, who visited the exhibition “Life Goes On, Art Goes On” organized by the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey as part of the Forum, left the exhibition area to continue his contacts at...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the call, bilateral relations and regional issues, particularly Libya and Syria, were discussed.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Geneva for the Global Refugee Forum, met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113998/president-erdogan-meets-with-un-secretary-general-guterres
Formulas to keep refugees in their own lands, repatriate those in Turkey need to be implemented, says President Erdoğan Safe return of refugees and establishing a permanent stability in Syria is as important as fight against terrorism, the President Erdoğan said on Tuesday. Addressing the first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “Formulas to keep refugees in their own lands and repatriate those in Turkey need to be implemented.” Erdoğan also said that Turkey is currently hosting 5 million refugees -- with 3.7 of them Syrian -- and never forcefully repatriated any of them. “Countries...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Geneva for the Global Refugee Forum, met with Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113988/president-erdogan-meets-with-prime-minister-khan-of-pakistan
Director of Communications Prof Fahrettin Altun stated: “Some European countries have considered refugees as a security threat not as human beings. Turkish people have done the opposite by opening their hearts to millions of fellow Syrians, Iraqis, Afghanis, and others. We will continue to do our part even if they do not!” Prof Altun shared the following statement from the social networking site Twitter, regarding the first Global Refugee Forum hosted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva and co-chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Prof Altun emphasized that Turkey had been leading international...
President Erdoğan arrived at the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva to attend the 1st Global Refugee Forum. On his arrival at the UN Geneva Office, President Erdoğan was met by Kelly Clements, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Clements and Erdoğan had a photo taken together and then President Erdoğan attended the plenary session of the 1st Global Refugee Forum.
Erdoğan says Turks in Europe are not foreigners but hosts President Erdoğan said on Monday that Turks in Europe are not foreigners and do not constitute "the other". Addressing an event in Geneva which marked the 50th anniversary of the migration of Turks to Switzerland, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey views Turks in Switzerland and in the rest of Europe as "human bridges". Erdoğan said they support the equal participation of Turks in Switzerland to the Swiss society. He said that they are against the assimilation of Turks but support the integration of them. “We [Turks] …...
President Erdoğan remembers passing of legendary religious poet and mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi Turkey’s president on Monday commemorated the 746th death anniversary of Sufi poet Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi -- a 13th century mystic, poet and Islamic scholar. “We will move forward without despair and intimidation, and march towards future in unity and solidarity by meeting around our common values,” Erdoğan said. “We will overcome all the obstacles that we face with the power of our great heritage,” he added. Born into a Turkic family in 1207, in what is now Afghanistan, Rumi is one of the most...