Concerning the agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijan and Armenia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, "Whatever understanding is adopted by Russia to take place there, our observation and command teams will be present there with the same understanding." President Erdoğan responded to journalists’ questions about the agenda at the Parliament following his party’s parliamentary group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT). When asked the question of "What status will the Turkish military have in Karabakh? What kind of a mechanism will it use to operate with Russia? Are there any patrolling activities planned,...
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Speaking at a tree planting event entitled “Breath for the Future, Breath for the World,” President Erdoğan noted that some 5.1 billion saplings have been planted across an area of nearly 5.5 million hectares in Turkey over the past 18 years as part of the fight against erosion, and said: “We aim at having planted a total of 7 billion saplings by the end of 2023.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at a tree-planting event entitled “Breath for the Future, Breath for the World,” at Yıldırım Beyazıt University campus in Ankara. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/122758/-we-aim-at-having-planted-a-total-of-...
Following is the message President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent to President Donald Trump of the United States: “Mr. President, I wish the election held in your country may yield auspicious outcomes for the people of the friendly and allied U.S. However the official election results may be, I thank you for the sincere and determined vision you set out during your 4-year term in order for the relations between Turkey and the U.S. to improve on the basis of shared interests and values. As the further enhancing of the historical friendship as well as the partnership and...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a phone conversation with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. During the conversation, the relations between Turkey and Russia as well as regional developments, Nagorno-Karabakh and Syria in particular, were discussed. During the conversation, President Erdoğan stated that an appropriate step was taken last night on the path to a lasting solution regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Pointing out that this significant opportunity, to which Turkey and Russia had together contributed a lot, had to be seized without being wasted for a fair and lasting peace and in order for the stability to be established...
''Mr. President-elect, I wish the election results may yield auspicious outcomes for the people of the friendly and allied US. As we have addressed on many occasions during your Vice Presidency as well, Turkey-US relations have a strategic quality with a deep-rooted basis. The challenges we are currently faced with at a regional and global level necessitate us to further enhance and strengthen our bilateral relations, which are based on shared interests and values. Reiterating to that end our determination to work closely with the US administration in the period ahead, I believe that the strong cooperation and the ties...
The Digital Display Centres, which were opened by the Directorate of Communications in Ağrı, Çanakkale, Samsun, Konya, Kayseri, Antalya and Diyarbakır, are hosting their visitors with the theme of “Commemoration of Atatürk on November 10”. The Directorate of Communications, which offers our national, historical, cultural and scientific wealth to the access of citizens by using new communication and display techniques, addresses the theme of “Commemoration of Atatürk on November 10” at Digital Display Centres opened in Çanakkale, Samsun, Konya, Kayseri, Antalya and Diyarbakır. Furthermore, the Digital Display Centre, which will be opened in Ağrı in November,...
Speaking at a commemorative event on Atatürk’s passing to eternity, President Erdoğan said: “Turkey continuing now in a stronger manner the War of Independence it launched a century ago is the reason why it faces such a deep and nefarious encirclement. We would encounter none of the existing obstacles if we had remained within the narrow boundaries drawn for our nation, if we had not rejected submission, or if we had heeded the tutelage rather than the people. But then we would have disappointed our nation.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the commemoration ceremony on the 8...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the ceremony held at Anıtkabir on the 82nd anniversary of the passing of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey. The ceremony at Anıtkabir (Atatürk’s Mausoleum) began as high-ranking state officials walked on the Lion Road. President Erdoğan and other high-ranking officials laid wreaths at Atatürk’s mausoleum and observed a moment of silence at 09:05 a.m. at Anıtkabir. After the national anthem was sung, President Erdoğan wrote the following in the Anıtkabir Special Book at Misak-ı Millî Tower: “We commemorate...
Following is the message President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued on the occasion of the “State Flag Day” of Azerbaijan: On behalf of my country and my nation, I congratulate the “9 November State Flag Day” of our brother, Azerbaijan, with which we act in the international arena as “two states, one nation.” The late poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh describes the brotherhood between Azerbaijan and Turkey as “two sons of the one mother.” With the steps we take as two brotherly countries, we show to the entire world that we are brothers not just in words but in deeds in all areas...