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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Aziz oglu Bayramov and Minister of Defense Colonel General Hasanov Zakir Asgar Oglu of Azerbaijan at the Presidential Complex. Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar were also present at the meeting.  https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/120788/president-erdogan-receives-foreign-affairs-minister-jeyhun-bayramov-of-azerbaijan

Addressing the nation following the Presidential Cabinet meeting, President Erdoğan referred to Ankara’s response to attempts that disregard Turkey’s rights in the Aegean and Mediterranean as one of the top agenda items of the cabinet meeting, and said: “We will definitely not consent to the attempts which ignore such a giant land of 780 thousand square meters as Turkey and seek to confine us to our coasts over the islands of just a few square meters. No country in the world would succumb to such a ridiculous and baseless request.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the nation...

The Presidential Cabinet convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The meeting at the Presidential Complex that started at 15.30 lasted around 4 hours.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated at the Inauguration Ceremony of Kocaeli University Health Facilities and Research Centers that Kocaeli University's Oncology Hospital and Rehabilitation Center would be opened along with three medical centers.   Noting that the center actively contributed to the PCR testing services carried out in the region in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, President Erdoğan wished the health facilities with a total investment of 147 million TL to be auspicious and congratulated those who contributed to the construction of the buildings.   "We have witnessed that the healthcare systems of many...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with the members of TÜBİTAK Covid-19 Turkey Platform.   President Erdoğan visited the facilities after the Inauguration Ceremony for TÜBİTAK Centers of Excellence.   Erdoğan then returned to the ceremonial ground and met with the members of TÜBİTAK Covid-19 Turkey Platform. The meeting was held closed to the press.   Speaking for a minute, each member explained the developments in domestic and national pharmaceutical production. President Erdoğan gave the order to bring the issue to the agenda at the Cabinet Meeting to be held tomorrow...

Speaking at the opening ceremony of TUBITAK’s Centers of Excellence, President Erdoğan highlighted Turkey’s efforts against COVID-19, and said: “We have made significant progress in our projects to develop vaccines and drugs for COVID-19 in cooperation with the private sector, universities and the state. We rank third right after the U.S. and China in the WHO’s list of countries developing local vaccine. The COVID-19 Turkey Platform, led by TUBITAK, currently runs eight different projects for vaccine and 10 different projects for drug.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the opening ceremony of TUBITAK�...

Presidency’s Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun gave a speech at the opening of the university preferences event, TercihFest (PreferFest), organized online in collaboration with Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul Technical University, and Health Sciences University. Noting that the world at present is very different from 20 years ago, Altun stated that the change and transformation of the world are reflected in the application areas and theories of social sciences as well as in the social world. Stating that instead of paradigms such as “end of history”, “liberal globalization”, “globalization” of the 1990s, “trade” and “culture wars” and even “hot war” were...

Directorate of Communications announced the number of cases, deaths, and discharges in countries affected by coronavirus (Covid-19) throughout the world as of August 7, 2020, 23:00.   Directorate of Communications shared a post on its Twitter account, stating that the number of people infected with Covid-19, which broke out in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China, exceeded 19 million 408 thousand.   The post also provided information regarding the current situation in Turkey, and noted:  “Turkey has conducted a total of 5,138,528 tests so far. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 238,450, while 5,813 citizens have lost their lives and 221,574 patients have...

Answering reporters’ questions after performing Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, President Erdoğan described the explosion in Lebanon as a huge disaster, and said: “We will stand by Lebanon, the Lebanese people and Beirut with everything we have, both materially and morally.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered reporters’ questions after performing Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque. “TURKEY CANNOT LEAVE THE BROTHERLY LEBANON ALONE” On the explosion in Beirut, President Erdoğan noted that there is no clear information as of now regarding the perpetrators of the incident. Stressing that Turkey is closely following...