President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Geneva for the Global Refugee Forum, met with members of the Union of International Democrats (UID). Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar and Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank were also present at the meeting. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113974/president-erdogan-receives-members-of-uid
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Geneva for the Global Refugee Forum, met with Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre of Somalia. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar were also present at the meeting. President Erdoğan also had a brief conversation with European Union Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113968/president-erdogan-meets-with-somali-pm-khayre
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in the Swiss city of Geneva to attend the Global Refugee Forum. President Erdoğan was welcomed at Geneva International Airport by Turkish officials. First Lady Emine Erdoğan, Minister of Family, Labor and Social Services Zehra Zümrüt Selçuk, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Treasury and Finance Berat Albayrak, Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar and Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank are accompanying the President in Switzerland. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113963/president-erdogan-in-switzerland
President Erdogan says U.S. Senate's resolution on Armenian allegations over events of 1915 'completely political' President Erdogan said Sunday that Ankara may close two bases in Turkey where U.S. soldiers are stationed "if necessary". "If necessary, we will hold discussions with all our delegations, and if necessary, we may close Incirlik [air base in southern Adana province] and Kurecik [radar station in eastern Malatya province]," Erdogan said in a televised interview. Speaking about a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate on Armenian allegations over the events of 1915, Erdogan said the bill was "completely political," adding: "It...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Fayez Al Sarraj, at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113952/president-erdogan-meets-with-libyan-presidential-council-chairman-sarraj
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Switzerland on December 16-17, 2019 to attend the first meeting of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, and then will visit Malaysia on December 18-19, 2019 to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit at the invitation of Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. The Global Refugee Forum is the main platform for monitoring the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018. President Erdoğan will co-chair the Forum with statespeople of Costa Rica, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Germany at the invitation of Filippo Grandi,...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Hamas Political Bureau Leader Ismail Haniyeh at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113945/president-erdogan-receives-hamas-political-bureau-leader-haniyeh
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards Ceremony at Beştepe Culture and Convention Center. President Erdoğan made a speech at the ceremony. Underscoring that culture and arts are among the distinctive features of independence just like flag and land, President Erdoğan noted that societies that lack their own works, accumulations and policies of culture and arts are doomed to get crushed under the hegemony, overt or covert, of societies which are powerful in terms of these aspects. The 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards were granted to the late Nuri Pakdil...
On his Twitter account, Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun shared a message about the US Senate's resolution to recognize the 1915 Armenian events as "genocide”. Stating that the attitude of some members of the US Congress undermined Turkish-American relations, Altun said: “The sanctions bill that passed yesterday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Armenian resolution that passed today in the Senate endanger the future of our bilateral relationship. Since the beginning of the Peace Spring Operation, we’ve conveyed to our American counterparts the reasons and the goals of our military operation in northern Syria. Sanctions and threats...