According to TRT Haber, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has announced that the Sakarya gas field in the Black Sea is set to begin producing 9.5 million cubic metres of gas per day, marking a new record for the Turkish energy sector. In a post shared on social media, Bayraktar stated, "A historic milestone has been reached in the field of energy. The first phase of the development of the Sakarya field has been completed. With this, we will produce 9.5 million cubic metres of gas daily, supplying energy to over 4 million households." Bayraktar expressed his gratitude to all contributors to...
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Erzurum province, located in eastern Türkiye and declared the Tourism Capital for 2025 by the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), is set to host the Palandöken Economic Forum on April 26 and 27, 2005. The event will be held under the theme ''An Equitable Future in a Smart World: Intelligent Economies and Global Inequality". Leading politicians, academics, and entrepreneurs from various countries will gather to discuss the effects of digital transformation, particularly artificial intelligence, on today's economies. The forum is scheduled to feature five main sessions and two special sessions. People from Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and...
In a message published on X on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye paid tribute to Pope Francis as a "respected statesman" who "valued dialogue between different faith groups." The President of Türkiye, a country with a predominantly Sunni Muslim population that hosted Pope Francis in November 2014, also referred to the Pope’s initiatives in the face of human tragedies, especially the Palestinian issue and the genocide in Gaza.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye criticised the Western attitude towards the genocide committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, stating that these events exposed the hollowness of Western countries' moral values. Speaking at a conference held by the non-governmental organisation "Women and Democracy" in İstanbul, Turkish President Erdoğan stated that the ongoing massacres in the Gaza Strip revealed Western claims regarding moral values to be utterly without foundation. Referring to the bloodshed in Gaza in the past 18 months, Erdoğan said: "All of these events and the recent massacres have exposed the Western notion...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Friday expressed his country's support for the Egyptian-Qatari efforts to renew the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stressed the need to guarantee the return of Palestinian refugees, saying they would not "accept a new displacement." During the meeting of the Group of Parliaments in Support of Palestine in Ä°stanbul on Friday, ErdoÄŸan denounced the crimes committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza as a result of the Israeli war, saying that "Israeli barbarism and brutality in Gaza are taking place in full view of the United Nations and the UN Security...
Türkiye will continue to support Palestine even if it has to do so alone. Attending the first meeting of the Group of Parliaments in Support of Palestine in İstanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, "There is no alternative to a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem. Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people. We will continue our relentless struggle until the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital within the 1967 borders, even if we’re the only ones." Indicating that the international system has failed in Gaza, Erdoğan said, "It is...
President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan of Türkiye stated that the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, organised for the fourth time this year, has become a reliable and impactful platform on the world stage, actively monitoring the dynamics of diplomacy while amplifying the voices of the oppressed and victimised. In his special message, President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan said, "I hope that the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which has become a global brand with the spirit of diplomacy, will be of great benefit to the whole world, to all humanity, and especially to those oppressed and victimised in our geography." President ErdoÄ...
Serdar Berdimuhamedov's visit to Japan enhanced the legal framework of Turkmen-Japanese cooperation through the establishment of new agreements. Meetings were held with representatives from Japanese companies as part of the visit, and important agreements were reached to launch major industrial projects in our country. A new industrial facility is set to be established in our country through a partnership between Turkmenistan, Japan, and Türkiye. A new factory with an annual production capacity of 1,155,000 tons of urea will be built in the village of Kiyanly in the Balkan Velayat of Turkmenistan. A cooperation agreement was signed in Tokyo between "GAP Ä...
When the Turkish Army first used the Bayraktar TB2 drones in operations against the terrorist organisation PKK on the Syrian border in 2015, few could have predicted that these aircraft would become a recognised symbol of a new era of warfare–one that is cheaper, more mobile, and more efficient. Since then, Bayraktar drones have played a key role in conflicts in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and especially in Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan has regained control of territories that fall under its constitutional jurisdiction under international law thanks to these systems. Now, Bosnia and...