President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia at the Dolmabahçe Presidential Office in Istanbul. Also attending the meeting were First Lady Emine Erdoğan and the First Lady María Juliana Ruiz of Colombia. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/137979/president-erdogan-meets-with-president-duque-of-colombia
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President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia will pay a working visit to Türkiye on May 20-22, 2022 at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. All aspects of the Türkiye-Colombia relations will be reviewed and potential steps that would enhance the cooperation between the two countries will be discussed during the talks to be held as part of the visit. Besides the bilateral relations, views on current regional and international matters will be exchanged at the talks. It is also on the agenda of the visit that various documents that would strengthen the contractual basis of...
Making a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of Darulaceze Social Services City, President Erdoğan said: “This institution, which embraces all the indigent, that is all those in need, without any discrimination on the basis of faith, race, origin, gender or age, is one of the most beautiful examples of our civilization’s and nation’s view of humanity.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the Darulaceze Social Services City in Istanbul’s district of Arnavutköy. Making a speech at the groundbreaking ceremony, President Erdoğan remembered with mercy and gratitude Sultan Aldulhamid II, who...
Director of Communications Altun: “Honesty is the best policy. You look us in the eye and keep lying. You keep supporting the terrorist organization PKK. If Sweden truly considers PKK a terrorist entity, it must do what is necessary. Presidency’s Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun denounced the post Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde shared saying “Sweden was the first government to list PKK as a terrorist organization” by saying “This is disinformation in the name of combating disinformation.” In a post on his Twitter account, Director of Communications Altun responded to a post shared by Swedish Foreign Minister Linde...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan performed Friday prayer at Hz. Ali Mosque in Istanbul. Following the prayer, President Erdoğan answered reporters’ questions. With regard to his meeting with President Iván Duque Márquez of Colombia, President Erdoğan noted that they would discuss the bilateral relations between Türkiye and Colombia as well as such regional matters as the Russia-Ukraine issue, and the drug-trafficking aspect of global terrorism. In answer to a question on the PKK/YPG terrorist organization’s efforts to stop civilians from returning to the terror-free zones in Syria, President Erdoğan said: “First...
President Erdoğan: “The ships, which will be able to perform all kinds of military duties from air defence to submarine defence, will be delivered at six-month intervals beginning in August 2023.” In a video message he sent to the launching ceremony of the third vessel of the Pakistan MİLGEM Project, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “The production process of all these ships, equipped with the most modern weapons and sensor systems developed by our country, continues as planned.” The third vessel of the Pakistan MİLGEM Project, Badr, was launched at the Karachi Dockyard in the Pakistani port...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with national athletes and youth representatives at the debut of Independence Ballads on the occasion of the May 19 Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day at Convention and Culture Center of the Grand Ankara Mosque. “I remember with grace all our martyrs, veterans and heroes who sacrificed their lives without hesitation to make these lands our homeland since the Battle of Manzikert to the War of Independence. I remember with gratitude every single member of our military, from its Commander-in-Chief Ghazi Mustafa Kemal to the privates, who crowned with triumph the fire...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with youth during an event held at the Nation’s Library in Ankara. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/137946/president-erdogan-meets-with-youth-in-ankara#/
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun celebrated the May 19 Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day. In the message he shared on his social media account, Altun said, "With determination and our youth, we carry the torch that was lit in Samsun in 1919 to the present and the future, 103 years later. I celebrate the anniversary of our May 19 Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day." In the video shared by Director of Communications Altun and produced by the Presidency’s Directorate of Communications, it is stated that on May 19, 1919, Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk took the first step...