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President Erdoğan to Visit Switzerland and Malaysia

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Switzerland on December 16-17, 2019 to attend the first meeting of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, and then will visit Malaysia on December 18-19, 2019 to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit at the invitation of Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. The Global Refugee Forum is the main platform for monitoring the implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018. President Erdoğan will co-chair the Forum with statespeople of Costa Rica, Pakistan, Ethiopia and Germany at the invitation of Filippo Grandi,...

President Erdoğan attends 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards Ceremony

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards Ceremony at Beştepe Culture and Convention Center. President Erdoğan made a speech at the ceremony. Underscoring that culture and arts are among the distinctive features of independence just like flag and land, President Erdoğan noted that societies that lack their own works, accumulations and policies of culture and arts are doomed to get crushed under the hegemony, overt or covert, of societies which are powerful in terms of these aspects. The 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards were granted to the late Nuri Pakdil...

Altun: “Sanctions and threats will not deter us from protecting our national security interests”

On his Twitter account, Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun shared a message about the US Senate's resolution to recognize the 1915 Armenian events as "genocide”. Stating that the attitude of some members of the US Congress undermined Turkish-American relations, Altun said: “The sanctions bill that passed yesterday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Armenian resolution that passed today in the Senate endanger the future of our bilateral relationship. Since the beginning of the Peace Spring Operation, we’ve conveyed to our American counterparts the reasons and the goals of our military operation in northern Syria. Sanctions and threats...

Turkey to start Canal Istanbul project ‘soon’: Erdogan

President Erdoğan says project of artificial sea route to protect Bosphorus from risks Turkey will soon initiate the project of artificial sea-level waterway Canal Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. “We will initiate Canal Istanbul as soon as possible with a tender,” Erdogan told a meeting on social project of 100,000 houses for low-income people in capital Ankara. Erdogan added it is a “project to protect the Bosphorus from a serious disaster.” The planned canal is meant to provide relief to shipping traffic between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, particularly oil tanker traffic through...