President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with young people and answered their questions at the Library Talks held at the Presidency's Nation's Library. Upon the question, "What are the advantages of Canal Istanbul? Do we intend to withdraw from the Montreux Convention by doing so?" President Erdoğan stated that it was a canal with a length of 42-43 kilometres and that they were to connect the Black Sea to Marmara through this canal. President Erdoğan continued as follows: "The fact remains that these processes, such as whether the ships coming from the Black Sea and the Marmara would...
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Presidency’s Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun responded on social media with a video message to racist Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ Islamophobic post on Ramadan. Director of Communications Altun shared a video message on his Twitter account, which said, "Heartless Geert Wilders represents extremism, racism, violence, and fascism. Islam condemns extremism, racism, violence, and fascism. Stop racism.” Advocating in his post that Islam did not belong in the Netherlands, extreme rightist Wilders said, "Stop Islam and stop Ramadan."
President Erdoğan stated that Türkiye had managed to become one of the few countries with air-to-air missile technology. In the post he shared on his Twitter account, President Erdoğan said, “Türkiye has managed to become one of the few countries with air-to-air missile technology. BOZDOĞAN, our within visual range air-to-air missile developed by our young technicians and engineers under the GÖKTUĞ project, hit right on the target at the first shot. Mashallah to the youth”. The video shared by President Erdoğan features Bozdoğan firing and hitting right on the air target called "...
Speaking after the Presidential Cabinet Meeting, President Erdoğan said: “We will further tighten the measures in the first two weeks of Ramadan and implement partial lockdown. Our aim is to achieve a significant drop in case and death numbers. If we cannot accomplish the improvement we expect in the table over the course of these two weeks, stricter measures will be inevitable.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the nation following the Presidential Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex. President Erdoğan said: “Following our last cabinet meeting, besides our other works, we have participated in a series of...
The Presidential Cabinet convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/126579/presidential-cabinet-convenes-under-president-erdogan-s-chairmanship
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun held an inter-committee meeting with Minister of Culture, Information, Sports and Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan Kairat Imanaliev. In the meeting that took place at the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, steps for developing the relationship between Türkiye and Kyrgyzstan and cooperation in media, communications, culture and public diplomacy were discussed. In his address, Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun congratulated Kyrgyzstan on the 30th anniversary of its independence and expressed that Türkiye and Kyrgyzstan were two countries with strong bonds. Indicating that Türkiye always stood by Kyrgyzstan under President Recep Tayyip Erdo...
The "Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation in the Field of Media between the Government of the Republic of Türkiye and National Unity Government of Libya", signed by Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun and Minister of State for Communication and Political Affairs Walid Ammar Muhammad Al-Lafi of Libya, aims to establish a Joint Media Platform between the two countries, in order to develop cooperation between two countries in the fields of media. The "Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Cooperation in the Field of Media between the Government of the Republic of Türkiye and National Unity Government of...
Holding a joint press conference with Libyan National Unity Government Prime Minister Dbeibeh, President Erdoğan said: “Our primary goal is the protection of Libya’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and political unity; the prosperity of the Libyan people. Turkey embraces with affection the entire Libya from west to east, north to south.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held a joint press conference following the High Level Strategic Cooperation Council meeting at the Presidential Complex. “WE HAVE BEEN BUILDING OUR FUTURE BY THE STRENGTH WE DERIVE FROM...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan welcomed Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity of Libya, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, with an official ceremony at the Presidential Complex. After the national anthems of Turkey and Libya were played, Prime Minister Dbeibeh saluted the guard of honor. Following the introduction of the delegations, President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Dbeibeh posed for the press and headed inside for their bilateral meeting. President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Dbeibeh will co-chair the Turkey-Libya High Level Strategic Cooperation Council session following their bilateral meeting. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/126569/libyan-national-unity-government-pm-dbeibeh-at-the-presidential-complex-