President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held phone conversations with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan's First President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon. During the conversation held by Erdoğan with each president, mutual greetings on Eid al-Adha were exchanged. President Erdoğan also exchanged Eid al-Adha greetings on the phone with Pakistani President Arif Alvi, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and Tunisian Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi. During the conversations, determination to improve bilateral relations and strengthen cooperation on regional issues was underlined.
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President Erdoğan said the reopening of the Hagia Sophia as a mosque made the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha even more joyous. "The reopening of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque -- an 86-year wound in the heart of our nation -- has added to the joy of our Eid," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, greeting local officials of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party for the holiday via video-link. Erdoğan said he sought to hold an upcoming party congress as a "new resurrection, a new rising milestone." The next AK Party congress is expected to be held...
Directorate of Communications announced the number of cases, deaths, and discharges in countries affected by coronavirus (Covid-19) throughout the world as of July 31, 2020, 22:30. 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 17 million 630 thousand. The post also provided information regarding the current situation in Turkey, and noted: “Turkey has conducted a total of 4,800,823 tests so far. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 230,873, while 5,691 citizens have lost their lives and 214,535 patients have recovered.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan exchanged Eid al-Adha greetings on the phone with President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman and President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan. President Erdoğan also exchanged Eid al-Adha greetings on the phone with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria, President Kais Saied of Tunisia, President Sooronbay Jeenbekov of Kyrgyzstan, President Barham Salih of Iraq and Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegović. During the conversations, the leaders exchanged greetings on...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. During the conversation, Erdoğan and Al Thani exchanged greetings on Eid-al-Adha.
Issuing a message on Eid al-Adha, President Erdoğan congratulated the citizens on Eid al-Adha, and said: “I ask all our citizens, who will set off for Eid al-Adha, to strictly abide by traffic and healthcare rules. I wish that Eid al-Adha may bring serenity to our hearts, well-being to our country and peace to our world. Eid Mubarak!” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued the following message on Eid al-Adha: “We praise our Lord, who lets us observe another Eid al-Adha. I pray to Allah that these sacred days will lead to auspicious results for our nation, the Islamic...
Directorate of Communications has launched the website “www.sumela.gov.tr” in order to promote the Sumela Monastery. The Sumela Monastery, which was reopened yesterday by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following its restoration, welcomes visitors with the message “The hidden monuments of Anatolia come to light”. The website provides detailed information on the history and architecture of the Sumela Monastery as well as the restoration works performed and also has a photo gallery. Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun posted the following on his Twitter about the website: "We have taken another major step towards preserving...
Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun evaluated the discussions of “Atatürk, Republic”, which was initiated deliberately by some circles following the reopening of Hagia Sophia as a mosque, to the newspaper AKŞAM. Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun stated that the reopening of Hagia Sophia to worship as a mosque arouse great excitement in the Islamic world, yet the circles trying to prevent Turkey from progressing worked to launch fabricated discussions on ‘‘Atatürk and the Republic” against that event. Prof. Altun answered the written questions of TürkMedia Ankara Representative Melik Yiğitel as follows: “We...
On his Twitter account, Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun shared a video about the culture of coexistence between members of the Jewish, Greek, Armenian, and Assyrian communities and the Turkish citizens of the Islamic faith in Istanbul. In the video he shared on his Twitter account, Altun said in Greek: “Under the leadership of our President, with the awareness that ‘we are Turkey together’, we have taken unprecedented steps to put the principle of equal citizenship into practice and to protect our nation's cultural and religious diversity.” The video included interviews about the culture of coexistence and personal experiences of...