President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Turkey’s Women’s Under-19 National Volleyball Team, which won the gold medal at the 2020 Women’s Junior European Volleyball Championship. During the reception held at the Vahdettin Mansion, Erdoğan held a conversation with the players and the technical delegation that visited him with the championship cup and he congratulated the National Team for its success. The National Team’s technical delegation presented Erdoğan the championship medal and the volleyball signed by the team players as a gift. Youth and Sports Minister, Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu was also present at the reception. ...
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Directorate of Communications announced the number of cases, deaths, and discharges in countries affected by coronavirus (Covid-19) throughout the world as of September 04, 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 26 million 669 thousand. The post also provided information regarding the current situation in Turkey, and noted: “Turkey has conducted a total of 7,583,200 tests so far. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 276,555, while 6,564 citizens have lost their lives and 249,108 patients have recovered.”
Speaking at the inauguration of the Ankara-Niğde Highway, President Erdoğan said: “We will keep working with full strength so as to turn the year 2023, the centenary of our Republic, into the beginning of a new victory for our nation. The plans of agitators are being disclosed one by one both at home and abroad. Those who seek to make Turkey – which they couldn’t stop with tutelage, terrorism, chaos, coup attempts and many more traps – deviate from its route through new unscrupulous schemes will get disappointed once again.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the...
On the 101st anniversary of the Sivas Congress, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan noted the following: "We once again reiterate that our nation which will not accept mandate or tutelage will protect its beautiful homeland as a whole and will never let it be divided” President Erdoğan shared a message on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the Sivas Congress. Underscoring that the date September 4, 1919, and the Sivas Congress had a very important place in the nation’s memory as it constituted one of the turning points for the Turkish War of Independence, Erdoğan continued: “The Sivas...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Those who make the mistake of coveting the flag and adhan of the Turkish nation executed three prime ministers, two ministers, and a commander in chief, while they were looking for a way out of the crisis they were experiencing.” Minister of National Defence Hulusi Akar, accompanied by Chief of General Staff General Yaşar Güler, Land Forces Commander General Ümit Dündar, Naval Forces Commander Admiral Adnan Özbal, and Air Forces Commander General Hasan Küçükakyüz, attended the Graduation Ceremony of the 2nd Term Command and Staff Training of the National...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received President Nechirvan Barzani of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) at the Presidential Complex. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/122026/president-erdogan-receives-ikrg-president-barzani
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel via video conference earlier today. The two leaders discussed regional affairs, starting with the most recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean. During the video conference, President Erdoğan reiterated his commitment to a fair allocation, whereby the rights of Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots in the Eastern Mediterranean would be protected, and which would serve the interests of all littoral states. He noted, however, that Greece, the Greek Cypriots and the states supporting them have been taking steps that escalated tensions. Stressing that certain countries’ support for Greece’s...
Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun stated that, French President Emmanuel Macron dreamt of a world, in which he was not subjected to scrutiny or reality, that he wanted reporters not to report because it would upset him and that he wanted a war criminal to win the Libyan civil war just because he so desired. Altun shared a post on his social media account regarding Macron’s reaction to the Le Figaro reporter. In his post Director of Communications Altun noted the following: “We are deeply concerned about French President Macron’s disrespectful reaction to Le Figaro...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Robert Spano at the Presidential Complex. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/122020/president-erdogan-receives-echr-president-spano