Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday wished "peace and tranquility" for all humanity across the world in 2019. In his message for New Year, Erdogan said: "We side with stability, justice, tolerance and peace across the world, together with our region." “Through this understanding, we defend the rights of Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Tripoli, Sarajevo, and Crimea. Turkey is “not responsible for the incidents in our region and will not be a victim of them,” Erdogan said. “Developments in Syria are the result of these efforts,” he added. Turkey has conducted two successful cross-border...
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Turkey's president on Sunday vowed that his country would continue to destroy terrorists as Ankara did in the past. "We went into the terrorists' den, destroyed and continuing to destroy them," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said indicating Ankara's recent counter-terrorism operations inside Turkey and in northwestern Syria. Erdogan was speaking at his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party meeting in Istanbul. In the last two years, Turkey has successfully carried out two counter-terrorist operations in Syria -- Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch -- to eradicate the presence of YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists near Turkey’s borders,...
Turkey’s president on Thursday honored the poet who penned the lyrics of the national anthem, 82 years after his passing. Speaking at a meeting of village and neighborhood heads at the presidential complex, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "I commemorate Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who immortalized the [Turkish] people’s love of the flag." Ersoy, a Turkish-Albanian poet, was born in Ottoman-era Istanbul, in 1873, in the Fatih district. In 1921, in the wake of World War I, during Turkey’s War of Independence against foreign occupation, Ersoy wrote the Istiklal Marsi (Independence March). With music by Zeki Ungor, it was...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that no justice should be expected from the UN. "Do not expect anything like justice from the UN Security Council and the United Nations, do not search for it, there is no such thing [there]," Erdogan said at an award ceremony for Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). Erdogan said that Muslims are not given the right to speak about their issues and international problems at the UN Security Council. "The fact that the Islamic world, which has a population of 1.7 billion, does not...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks Tuesday in Ankara with Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. Razzaz also met with Vice President Fuat Oktay. During their meeting, Razzaz and Oktay exchanged views on political and economic relations between Turkey and Jordan, according to presidential sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. The visit is the first to Turkey by Razzaz since he assumed his position in June. Safadi and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu also met. "At our meeting in Ankara, evaluated regional challenges w/Ayman Safadi, Foreign Minister of friendly&brotherly...
Turkey will be the 12th-largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP) next year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Currently, the country ranks 13th-largest economy based on PPP. In his parliamentary address at the group meeting of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Erdogan said that the government is determined to reduce the inflation rate to the targeted level in 2019. "Every step we have taken, aims to maintain our growth, development and strength," the president said. Turkey's annual inflation was 21.62 percent in November, according to the latest data from Turkish ...
Turkey pursues the freedom of the Arabs and the Kurds with its presence in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. "We consider the security and peace of the Arabs in Syria as our own business. We see the problems of the Kurds as our own,” Erdogan told a ceremony at the Presidential Complex in capital Ankara. Turkey also regards the security and the peace of the Turkmens as its own business, the president said. He added: “Why have we presence in Syria now? To give the freedom of our Arab and Kurdish brothers there back, not...
Speaking at the financial session of the General Assembly of the DEİK, President Erdoğan said: “So long as we walk toward same goals, share the same enthusiasm and clamp together like the bricks of a wall, Turkey will, with Allah’s permission, continue to make new histories.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the financial session of the General Assembly of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK). “OUR EXPORT VOLUME HAS REACHED $170 BILLION” Delivering a speech at the session, President Erdoğan recalled that as of the end of this year they...
Statement on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump: President Erdoğan spoke by phone with U.S. President Trump this evening. Mr. President congratulated the new year of the U.S. people in the person of President Trump. Besides bilateral issues, the latest developments in Syria were also discussed. Expressing his pleasure over the steps taken by the U.S. administration regarding the fight against terror in Syria, President Erdoğan stressed that Turkey is ready to provide any kind of support to the U.S., Turkey’s NATO...