President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that Türkiye would not stop deepening ties with the East, including the BRICS group of nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), even as it continued to face West. Speaking at an event in Ankara, Erdoğan said debates over an "axis shift" were unfounded, but that Türkiye had to adapt to new "centres of power" forming in the fields of economy, production, and technology, while keeping itself open to opportunities with every structure and actor. "That is the approach that lies behind our country's will to expand the basis...
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Türkiye has signed a "long-term agreement" with French group TotalEnergies on the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for 10 years as of 2027, Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar announced on Wednesday. "Our national company BOTAŞ and TotalEnergies have signed a long-term LNG agreement," Minister Bayraktar said in a statement at X. "With this agreement, which will be in force for 10 years starting from 2027, 16 LNG cargoes, approximately 1.6 billion cubic metres each, will be delivered each year," the minister said. "Our long-term LNG agreements are of vital in terms of guaranteeing the energy supply security of our country and our region,...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated in his post that Ankara will always stand with the Palestinians and their honourable resistance against Israeli forces in Gaza. In a post on his X social media account, Erdoğan shared: "We stand with Gaza and our Palestinian brothers with our voices, words, prayers, humanitarian aid, and all the means at our disposal. We will always continue to support their noble and honourable resistance." Since the onset of the war, the zionist regime, backed by the United States, has conducted a brutal campaign against the people of Gaza, resulting in over 132,000 Palestinians...
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...
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.