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President Erdoğan attends opening ceremony of Academic Year 2022-2023

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the opening ceremony of Academic Year 2022-2023 held at Beştepe Nation’s Convention and Culture Center. Making a speech at the ceremony, President Erdoğan noted that the humanity had for the past few years been going through a troubled period, which he underscored had started with the pandemic and continued with economic problems and hot conflicts, and added: “Almost every day we wake up to new crises sparked off in a different part of the world. The global system, which was built following the Second World War with the aim of protecting...

CICA’s 6th Summit to kick off in Astana on October 12

Heads of state of 11 countries, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran, will meet in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, where the 6th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) will be held this week. At the press conference on high-level visits to the country this week, Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Aybek Smadiyarov stated that the 6th CICA Summit would be held in the capital Astana on October 12-13. Smadiyarov stated that the Summit would be hosted by  President Kassym-Jomart K....

President Erdoğan watches Türkiye-Angola football match

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan watched the Amputee Football World Cup 2022 final between Türkiye and Angola. President Erdoğan spectated the match between the teams of Türkiye and Angola at Nef Stadium as part of the World Cup 2022 held in Istanbul. Along with President Erdoğan were Minister of Youth and Sports Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu, Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca, and his grandson Ahmet Akif Albayrak. About fifteen thousand Turkish flag-waving football fans cheered for the National Amputee Team.

President Erdoğan attends TÜGVA’s 5th Ordinary General Assembly

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the 5th Ordinary Meeting of the General Assembly of the Türkiye Youth Foundation (TÜGVA) and 6th Youth Gathering in Istanbul. Underscoring that TÜGVA was one of the most important institutional brands of the efforts exerted in order for the youth of Türkiye and its friends to acquire the awareness and experience that would make them capable of carrying out auspicious works for the entire humanity as well as the Turkish nation, President Erdoğan said: “It is this reality that lies behind the acts some circles, who are annoyed by...

President Erdoğan opens Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the opening ceremony of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture. Making a speech at the opening ceremony, President Erdoğan said: “Today, we are not only having the joy of introducing in Istanbul a monument that will be a brand in itself and a center of attraction in its field. But we are also feeling in our hearts the pride of reviving in this fine building Türkiye’s reservoir of modern arts.” https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/140050/president-erdogan-opens-istanbul-museum-of-painting-and-sculpture

Suzan Kardeş performs at 4th International Balkan Music Festival

Suzan Kardeş performed at the "4th International Balkan Music Festival" organised by the Thrace Foundation for Culture, Art and Education (TRAKSEV). Suzan Kardeş met art enthusiasts at the Grand Synagogue of Edirne during the festival organised with the support of the Directorate of Communications, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Foundations, Edirne Municipality and Trakya University. Kardeş sang Balkan and the Turkish Cinema (Yeşilçam) songs and unforgettable works of Turkish pop music. Governor Hüseyin Kürşat Kırbıyık, who attended the concert with his wife Dilek Kırbıyık, occasionally accompanied...

“Thanks to our infrastructure, we are keeping global crises’ repercussions on our country to the minimum”

Speaking at an opening ceremony in Balıkesir, President Erdoğan said: “Thanks to the infrastructure we have built, the measures we have taken and the mechanisms we have implemented, we are keeping the repercussions of global crises on our country to the minimum.”  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the opening ceremony of Balıkesir Organized Industrial Zone, Çamlık Nation’s Garden, Ardıçtepe Dam and other newly-completed projects. Underscoring that the world was going through the most difficult period since the World War II, President Erdoğan noted that the global political and...

“Each one of our 85 million people is a first-class citizen of our country”

Addressing the groundbreaking and mass opening ceremony of several cemevis, President Erdoğan said: “Each one of our 85 million people is a first-class citizen of our country. We work day and night to build a Türkiye where every individual in our country can exercise all of his/her basic rights and freedoms from religion and worship to education and work.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the groundbreaking and mass opening ceremony of several cemevis. Drawing attention to the administrative steps taken with a view to providing state protection and support to the services relating to...

President Erdoğan performs Friday prayer in Istanbul

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered reporters’ questions after performing the Friday prayer at Hz. Ali Mosque in Istanbul’s Üsküdar district. In answer to a question about his phone call today with his Russian counterpart, President Erdoğan said that he congratulated Mr. Putin on his 70th birthday and that Mr. Putin thanked Türkiye for mediating between Russia and Ukraine. Asked about some Greek media outlets’ allegations that he and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had an altercation during the European Political Community dinner in Prague, President Erdoğan said: “Do I look like that kind...