Speaking at an event marking the 75th anniversary of the exile of the Meskhetian Turks, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “We will not hesitate to defend the cause of the Meskhetian Turks on every platform even if everyone remains silent. The only way to even slightly ease the wounds in the hearts of our Meskhetian brothers and sisters is to enable every Meskhetian Turk, who desires so, to return to their homeland. No one should remain indifferent to further aggrievement of these people who have been longing to return to their homeland for 75 years.” https://www.tccb.gov.tr...
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Ambassador Victor Rybak of Belarus, Ambassador Michael-Christos Diamessis of Greece and Ambassador José Luis Martínez y Hernández of Mexico presented their letters of credence to President Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex. Souvenir photographs were taken after families of ambassadors and some embassy officials were introduced to President Erdoğan. During the reception, President Erdoğan had a conversation with Mediha Sukriye Nami Martinez Hernandez Osmanoglu, who is Mexican Ambassador Hernandez’s wife and granddaughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II’s daughter Ayse Sultan. Mediha Osmanoglu, who has close relations with Turkish Embassy to Mexico and knows little Turkish,...
Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said that a weakened and outdated NATO would not contribute to world peace, Europe or the Middle East. On his Medium account, a micro blog platform, Altun published an article titled “In the wake of a summit: Where is NATO heading?” Altun noted that the NATO summit in London, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was among the participants, brought many discussions and said that, “We see that lately especially some countries bring forward Turkey’s position in NATO when NATO’s place in world politics is discussed. However, Turkey has been present for 67 years...
Speaking on the Human Rights Day, President Erdoğan said: “We stand by all the downtrodden and wronged with all our strength wherever they are in the world. We set an example for humanity with this dignified stance of ours everywhere from Syria to Palestine to Somalia to Arakan.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at an event marking the December 10 Human Rights Day. Celebrating the December 10 Human Rights Day, the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, President Erdoğan noted that human beings possess natural rights due to...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talked to the family of Cafer Ceylan, who has been rescued from PKK, and expressed his sincere sympathy. President Erdoğan talked over the phone with parents of Cafer Ceylan, born in 2000 and kidnapped by PKK terrorist organization in 2015, and expressed his sympathy to mother Hatice Ceylan and father Abdulkadir Ceylan. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu accompanied Erdoğan as he talked to Hatice Ceylan over the phone. Hatice Ceylan had previously joined sit-in protests outside the Provincial Office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) staged by mothers from Diyarbakır whose children have been...
Following is the message President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued on the occasion of December 10 Human Rights Day: “On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I would like to congratulate the Human Rights Day of Turkish citizens and the whole world. Unfortunately, we celebrate this day at the end of a year, in which the rights guaranteed by the Declaration were violated, injustice increased, innocents were murdered because of their faith, and new walls were built between compassion and humanity. Terrorist attacks carried out in this year that...
President Erdoğan says other int'l actors cannot carry out activities in areas marked in maritime deal With the maritime deal between Turkey and Libya, Ankara has shown the world its determination to protect its rights under international law, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Erdogan was speaking at a live televised interview with TRT, country’s public broadcaster. On Nov. 27, Turkey and Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli signed the bilateral memorandum. The memorandum asserts Turkey’s rights in the Eastern Mediterranean in the face of unilateral drilling by the Greek Cypriot administration,...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113861/president-erdogan-receives-foreign-minister-qureshi-of-pakistan
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113856/president-erdogan-meets-with-council-of-europe-secretary-general-buri-