President High Advisory Board convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The meeting at the Presidential Complex was attended by Board members Bülent Arınç, İsmail Kahraman, Cemil Çiçek, Köksal Toptan, Mehmet Ali Şahin, Yıldırım Akbulut, and the Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun. The high advisory board of Turkish presidency held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the regional and international reactions on Turkey's anti-terror operation in Syria and its fight against Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO). In the meeting, the board members emphasized that attitudes or behaviors that have the...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered the questions of journalists following the AK Party Group Meeting. Asked whether he made up his mind about the visit to the U.S. or not, Erdoğan said: "As I said before, we will have a phone call with Trump before the trip and I will make my final decision accordingly.” In response to a question about the purchase of warplanes from Russia if the U.S. refuses to deliver the F-35, Erdoğan noted the following: "When we bought the S-400, did we ask anyone for permission? We did not ask...
Addressing AK Party’s Parliamentary Group Meeting, President Erdoğan said: “Turkey has adopted it as a principle to resolve every issue through diplomacy, dialogue and negotiations based on mutual understanding. As such, we have explored all of these avenues regarding the threats emanating from Syria, too.” President and Justice and Development (AK) Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at AK Party’s Parliamentary Group Meeting. “Turkey is the country that has waged the biggest fight and scored the greatest achievements in the war on terror” President Erdoğan said: “Turkey is the country that has waged...
Director of Communications Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Altun, regarded the arrest of the slain leader of the terrorist organization DAESH Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sister Rasmiye Awad as, “another example of the success of Turkey's counter-terrorism operation.” In the statement he shared from his Twitter account, Altun stated that, Turkey's fight against terror regardless of its ideology or origin continues unabated. Altun stating that, “The arrest of al-Baghdadi's sister is yet another example of the success of our counter-terrorism operations. Our determination to bring justice to those who seek to terrorize our people and destabilize our region cannot be questioned”, pointed out...
Turkey has been fighting uninterruptedly against separatist terrorism since 1984 and has been targeted globally by the attacks of various terrorist organizations, with ASALA previously being in the first place. There are few countries in the world like Turkey which suffered so much from terror attacks yet achieved success by effectively combating terrorist organizations. In recent years, the humanitarian crisis in Syria has led to the emergence of another terrorist organization, PKK’s Syrian offshoot YPG, in addition to DEASH in our region. While hosting 4 million refugees on its territory, Turkey has also been fighting against terrorist organizations DEASH and PKK-YPG...
The Presidential Cabinet convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Complex lasted about 5 hours.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Sunday a command and control center in the border province of Sanliurfa where he was briefed about the ongoing operation in northern Syria. He was accompanied by Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Chief of General Staff Gen. Yasar Guler, intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, Communications Director Fahrettin Altun, Sanliurfa Governor Abdullah Erim, and senior members of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party. Turkey launched Operation Peace Spring on Oct. 9 to clear northeastern Syria east of the Euphrates River of terrorists and create a safe zone along the border,...
Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun condemned on his Twitter the PKK/YPG terror attack in Tal Abyad bazaar place that claimed 13 lives and wounded many. Fahrettin Altun noted the following: "We condemn the terror attack in Tal Abyad bazaar place that claimed 13 lives and wounded many. This terror attack exposed once again the true face of YPG/PKK terror group and the risks of supporting terror groups. This attack shows that partnering with terrorist organizations will not correct their behavior and change their methods of reaching their goals but only increase their destructive and violent capacity to conduct further...
Regarding the invitation extended to Ferhat Abdi Şahin, code named Mazlum Kobani by some members of the US Congress to the country, Director of Communications Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Altun stated that, “Our NATO ally’s efforts to glorify a terror leader will be etched in our memory for many years. The American support for this terror organization will be a dark stain in its history and will be taught as a textbook example of a foreign policy fiasco.” Prof. Dr. Fahrettin Altun stated the following in the statement he shared from his twitter account: “Ferhat Abdi Şahin (code name Mazloum...