Türkiye is committed to expediting the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, suggesting that peace negotiations should be assessed considering Ukraine's interests. Ukrinform, citing VOA, reported that Başat Öztürk, Director General for International Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye, made this statement. Öztürk noted that Türkiye's support for Ukraine is unwavering because it is "a neighbour, historically brother, and friendly country." He also emphasised that the support is not solely derived from the issue of Crimean Tatars. The Turkish Foreign Ministry representative said, "We consider all Ukrainian people as our brothers and...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye urged the international community, particularly the United Nations, to take a more active stance against Israel's actions in Gaza. In a video message sent to the participants of the Summit of the Future, which will be held ahead of the week of high-level meetings, Erdoğan stated the following: "Nobody can feel safe in a world where children are killed by bombs. The international community, particularly the UN, must speak out more actively against Israel's occupation policy. Türkiye will continue to stand against oppression and stand by the oppressed and will...
President of the Republic of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has called for the return of the Crimean Peninsula annexed by Russia to Ukraine. In a video message to a Crimean Platform summit, the Turkish President said, "Our support for Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence remains unwavering. International law mandates that Crimea be returned to Ukraine." Kyiv is attempting to draw more international attention to the annexed peninsula through the Crimean Platform, which was established in 2021. Ankara also criticised Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Since the beginning of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, Erdoğan has repeatedly underlined the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that Türkiye would seek justice for the slain Turkish-American activist by taking her "brutal" killing to an international court. "We will take every legal step to ensure that our daughter, Aysenur Ezgi's blood is not left unavenged and we will continue our fight against the state of Israel by applying at the highest level to the International Court of justice in The Hague," Erdoğan said following a Cabinet meeting. In his televised remarks, the Turkish leader also called on nations of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to meet urgently and...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel, drawing a rebuke from the Israeli foreign minister. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli troops of a Turkish-American woman taking part in a protest on Friday against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries," Erdoğan said at an Islamic schools' association...
The Central Banks of Türkiye and Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation. Fatih Karahan, Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye, and Ayman Al-Sayari, Governor of the Saudi Central Bank, signed the memorandum of understanding in Riyadh. In March, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye signed an agreement to provide five billion dollars in investment support to the Central Bank of Türkiye through the Saudi Fund for Development to stabilise the Turkish lira exchange rate.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara on Wednesday, as the two look to repair recently strained ties and cooperate more closely on energy, defense and the war in Gaza. The two nations signed a high-level strategic cooperation agreement and Erdoğan said the leaders have a “joint will” to improve ties in a range of areas, including in energy and defense. The countries signed 17 memorandums of understanding. “We desire to improve our cooperation with Egypt on energy, namely in natural gas and nuclear power,” said Erdoğan during a televised press. ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will hold talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Türkiye on Wednesday in the first presidential level visit in 12 years amid a warming of long-frozen relations between the regional powers. The visit comes after Erdoğan travelled to Cairo in February, his first trip to Egypt since 2012, taking a major step toward rebuilding ties that were severely strained for a decade. "Türkiye -Egypt relations will be reviewed in all their aspects and possible joint steps in the coming period to further develop cooperation will be discussed," the Turkish presidency's communications office said...
The Turkish defense and aviation industry's export revenues grew by 9.8 percent in the first eight months of 2024 compared to the same period last year, reaching 3.7 billion U.S. dollars, according to figures released by Türkiye's Defense Industry Agency (SSB) on Monday. In August alone, the country's defense and aerospace exports reached 423 million dollars, up by 12.6 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, SSB President Haluk Gorgun announced on the social media platform X. He noted that the main goal of Türkiye's defense industry's export strategy is to achieve a sustained increase in the export of...