Approximately 209.8 Million Passengers Have Travelled Through Mega Airport Since Its Opening As Anadolu Agency reported, İstanbul Airport, which was officially opened on October 29, 2018, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Türkiye, has served approximately 1.5 million planes to date. The first flight to İstanbul Airport took place on June 21, 2018, when the Presidential TC-ANK plane landed on the first runway, which is 3,750 metres long and 60 metres wide. According to data compiled by the Anadolu Agency, approximately 209.8 million passengers have passed through the mega airport since its opening. İstanbul Airport welcomed 95,205 passengers in 2018 and 51.9 million passengers in 2019. Tens of...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Saturday that his government would focus on reducing inflation to single digits from the current nearly 40 percent. "The uncertainty of the election time is now over. Our hand is stronger," Erdoğan told Turkish exporters during a meeting of the Turkish Exporters Assembly in Istanbul. "We will reduce the inflation, which has been a headache also for the world, to single digits... Our new economic leadership will prioritize this issue," he said. Türkiye's annual inflation fell to 39.59 percent in May after hitting a 24-year high of 85.51 percent in October last year,...
The 13th Session of the Economic Cooperation Council (ECO) High-Level Working Group on İslamabad-Tehran-İstanbul (ITI) freight train was held in Türkiye with a focus on enhancing infrastructure and transport capacities as well as the revision of the financial participation of the private sector and the Islamic Development Bank in this railway corridor. The meeting was co-organized by the Government of Türkiye and ECO Secretariat and was attended by the delegations from the Islamic Republic of Iran, Pakistan and Türkiye as well as representatives of the ECO Trade and Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and private sector. ...
Kuwait has concluded a contract worth $367 million with Turkish defence firm Baykar to buy its TB2 drones through direct negotiations between the two governments, the Kuwaiti army said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement did not reveal how many drones would be delivered to Kuwait or when. International demand for Baykar's TB2 drones soared after they featured in conflicts in Syria, Libya and Azerbaijan and interest in them increased further following their use by Ukraine's military to thwart Russian forces. The State of Kuwait would be the 28th country in the world to conclude a contract for the Bayraktar...
In his remarks he made following a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan stated that Azerbaijan and Türkiye would organise 16 joint military exercises this year. Noting that Baku and Ankara will maintain their common foreign policy stance, Aliyev also added that the unity of Azerbaijan and Türkiye was important for the development, stability and security of the region.
A battalion of special forces has been deployed in Kosovo upon request of NATO Allied Joint Force Command amid rising tensions recently, Anadolu Agency reports. The first battalion affiliated to the 65th Mechanized Infantry Brigade Command (Lüleburgaz) arrived in Kosovo in vehicles at the weekend. The second part of the special forces departed from Çorlu military airport and arrived at “Adem Jashari” International Airport in Pristina yesterday. Turkish soldiers were welcomed by Sabri Tunç Angili, Turkish Ambassador to Pristina. The special forces then headed to the “Sultan Murat” Barracks.
Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held separate phone calls with Ukrainian and Russian counterparts on Wednesday, offering to set up a joint mechanism to investigate a Ukrainian dam collapse. The Nova Kakhovka dam, one of the largest in the country, lies on the Dnipro River in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine. It collapsed on Tuesday, prompting tens of thousands to flee the region. In his phone calls first with Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy and then with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Erdogan tabled a proposal to set up a mechanism involving Russian and Ukrainian experts, the United Nations...
Erdoğan, after the first meeting of the new cabinet: Together, we will build the "Century of Türkiye" vision As reported by Anadolu Agency, Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that 85 million Turkish citizens would build the "Century of Türkiye" vision together. After the first meeting of the new cabinet in Ankara, Erdoğan said, "Pay close attention to these two words. We will be the implementers of these two words, two concepts. One of them is stability, and the other is trust. With stability and trust, we will build the Century of Türkiye.” New...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that the Swedish government has met all of Türkiye's conditions in the dispute over Sweden's accession to NATO. "Sweden has fulfilled its obligations," Stoltenberg said on Sunday after meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in İstanbul. Stoltenberg stated that Sweden has also amended its legislation to accommodate the security concerns of Türkiye. The Secretary General described his meeting with President Erdoğan as "productive" and announced that new negotiations with Türkiye and Sweden will be held on June 12. Since Thursday, new terrorism laws have been in effect in Sweden. Accordingly,...