Addressing an international conference on migration, President Erdoğan said: “We have been situated at the center of the movement of humans for centuries across continents and regions from east to west, from north to south. Over the past 500 years, we have opened our doors to people who have faced discrimination due to their faith, race and culture or who have suffered oppression and persecution, first and foremost the Jews fleeing the Inquisition.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed an international conference titled “Migration: Projections for the Next 20 Years and Beyond,” at Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir. Noting that...
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Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the post-earthquake houses in Izmir, President Erdoğan drew attention to the mobilization for urban transformation launched in 2012, and said: “TOKI has so far built one million earthquake-resistant social housing units across Turkey. Thus, we have ensured that five million brothers and sisters of ours have got their warm homes, and that tens of thousands of brothers and sisters of ours have got their new workplaces.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony of the post-earthquake houses in the Bayraklı district of Izmir and addressed via videoconference the opening ceremony of...
Speaking at AK Party’s congress in İzmir, President Erdoğan said: “Today, if we still stand strong despite all the hardships from the pandemic to terror, if we still look to the future with confidence and still continue walking towards great goals, we owe it to our achievements in the past 18 years.” President and Justice and Development (AK) Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed in person the party’s 7th ordinary provincial congress in İzmir and its congresses in Hakkari and Nevşehir via videoconference. Noting that Turkey has paid off its debt to the IMF and...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a phone conversation with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. During the conversation, regional issues and steps aimed at enhancing bilateral relations in economy, transportation, security and other areas were discussed. President Erdoğan said Turkey preserved the will to strengthen Turkey-Iran relations. Expressing Turkey’s wish for the new US administration to abandon unilateral sanctions on Iran and remove the unjustified obstacles to the welfare of the Iranian people, President Erdoğan noted that the statements made in the recent days on the issue offer a new window of opportunity. All parties meeting on...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said, "We have not forgotten and will not forget the massacres of the baby-killer PKK, even if some ignore them." Director of Communications Altun shared a video on PKK's civilian massacres on his Twitter account. The video, which featured the photographs of the murdered civilians, contained the following warning: "This video may disturb unconscientious supporters of terrorism who chant freedom slogans for the ringleader of the terrorist organisation, who ignore the political extensions of the PKK, who do not mention the name of the treacherous terrorist organisation." In the post, where President Recep Tayyip...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun commemorated one of the July 15 heroes, the martyr Ömer Halisdemir, with a video prepared on the occasion of his birthday. In the video post shared on his Twitter account, Director of Communications Altun stated the following: "Ömer Halisdemir, the brave, truthful and iron-hearted son of the motherland, has walked this world. Happy birthday, beautiful man; may Allah bless your soul, great hero... We commemorate with mercy and gratitude."
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, "As Turkey, we believe our common interests with the US far outweigh our differences in opinion. With this understanding, we want to further strengthen our cooperation with the new American administration through a long-term perspective on a win-win basis. Turkey will continue to do its part in a manner that is worthy of the alliance and strategic partnership between the two countries." President Erdoğan sent a video message to the special program organised on the occasion of the beginning of the uninterrupted broadcasting of TASC TV, the television channel...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a circular regarding the celebration of 2021 as the ‘Ahi Evran Year’. In the circular published in the Official Gazette, President Erdoğan stated that Ahi Evran, a sophisticated scientist and intellectual who was regarded as the founder of the Ahi organization and the leader of the artisans and craftsmen group in Anatolia, guided the social, economic and political life with the ahi-order organization, reiterated that he played an important role in making Anatolia homeland, the establishment of the Ottoman Empire and its being a world state, and that he was a profound scholar in...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun met Liu Shaobin, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Ankara. On his Twitter account, Altun shared the following post regarding the meeting: "We came together with Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Liu Shaobin, at our Directorate of Communications. We conveyed the message of our President to his Chinese counterpart via Mr. Shaobin, and we discussed our bilateral relations, especially our cooperation concerning the Covid-19 vaccine."