Announcing the 2023 foreign trade figures, President Erdoğan said: “Our exports have broken the Republican era record, reaching 255 billion 809 million dollars in 2023 with a 0.6 percent increase compared to the previous year. With this figure, we have surpassed even the 255 billion dollars target laid out in the Medium Term Programme.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the foreign trade figures of 2023 during an event in Ankara. Expressing his happiness to be coming together, on the first workday of the new year, with exporters and the pioneers of the business community who work selflessly to promote trade and make sure Turkish products...
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The claim in some media outlets that "mine-hunting ships donated to Ukraine by the United Kingdom were allowed to pass through the Turkish Straits to the Black Sea" is not true. Türkiye immediately classified Russia's special military operation against Ukraine as "war" and, in accordance with Article 19 of the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits, closed the Straits to warships of the belligerent parties (Russia and Ukraine). Türkiye, which has implemented the Montreux Convention impartially and diligently since 1936, maintains its unwavering determination and principled stance throughout this war to prevent the escalation of tension in the...
In his new year message on social media, Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun remarked that while we are putting 2023 behind by sharing it together, we are enjoying the thrill of walking into a new year with hope and excitement. Reiterating that the earthquakes, which were described as "heart-wrenching" and "the disaster of the century," occurred on February 6, Altun used the following expressions: "Unfortunately, we witnessed the massacre of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Palestine before the eyes of the entire world. I pray for Allah's mercy on our citizens who perished for...
Following is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s new year message: “My glorious nation, I greet you all with love from the bottom of my heart. Tonight, we are completing 2023 and stepping into 2024. I wish that the new year will lead to auspicious outcomes for our country, nation and the whole humanity. In fact, we believe that every year should be marked with joy, hope and enthusiasm. However, we are entering this year in a bitter manner due to the unpleasant incidents in both our region and the world as well as to our martyrs we lost recently. Obviously, we...
Addressing the Necip Fazıl Awards Ceremony, President Erdoğan said: “We have spent the last 21 years fighting the voluntary legionnaires of the west who, even though living here, call out to us from Paris, London or Washington and even from Qandil or Pennsylvania. Just like other fights, we will inshallah emerge victorious from this fight as well. Türkiye’s climate of culture and arts will definitely reach the level it deserves.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the Necip Fazıl Awards Ceremony at the Atatürk Cultural Center. Noting that the awards...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun shared a post on his social media account regarding "Bulletproof Dreams: Gaza Child Artists Exhibition". Director of Communications Altun stated the following in his post: “With the honour of First Lady Emine Erdoğan, we have opened the "Bulletproof Dreams: Gaza Child Artists" exhibition prepared by our Directorate of Communications, which includes belongings left behind by Gaza children, the majority of whom are no longer alive, who grew up between life and death under Israeli oppression for years. We have staged our exhibition, which includes 266 artworks left to us by the children of Gaza....
The Galatasaray-Fenerbahçe match, originally scheduled to take place in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on December 29, 2023, has been postponed to a later date. This has resulted in a significant amount of information pollution circulating both domestically and internationally. It has been found that information pollution has arisen from both systematic disinformation campaigns by certain groups that undermine our nation's shared values and sensitivities, as well as from a lack of information among some individuals. Hence, it became necessary to address the events and inform the public about disinformation campaigns that posed a threat to the peace and security...
Organized by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications and aiming to draw attention to the human tragedy in Gaza through the eyes of children, "Bulletproof Dreams: Gaza Child Artists Exhibition" opened in Taksim Square. First Lady Emine Erdoğan and the Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun also attended the opening, where the ribbon was cut and the artworks were presented for viewing. The exhibition aims to raise international awareness through the medium of art by conveying the feelings, traumas, pain and distressing conditions endured by children witnesses to the war in Gaza following the Israeli attacks. Based on the painting...
The Presidency’s Director of Communications, Fahrettin Altun, posted on his social media account in response to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's statements. In his post, Director of Communications Altun stated the following: “The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is the last person to talk about anything related to genocide. He has mastered skills to sell the world, his war crimes against civilians as self-defense. Even though the world fails to stop him, the history will judge him as the war criminal he is. The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is the last person to talk about our struggle against terrorism. We have...