President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan performed Friday prayer at Ömer Öztürk Mosque in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul.
Answering reporters’ questions following the prayer, President Erdoğan, as regards the incidents that occurred in the U.S. Senate building, said: “The process that took place in the U.S., the so-called ‘cradle of democracy’, has shocked and surprised the entire humanity.” Expressing his wish that the U.S. would find peace as of January 20 with Joe Biden’s inauguration, President Erdoğan offered his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives during the incidents and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.
In answer to a question regarding the inoculation of COVID-19 vaccines, President Erdoğan, underscoring that Turkey would procure vaccines from China and Germany in addition to the domestic ones, said the first three million vaccines, which would increase to 50 million, had arrived from China and that Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca continued to hold talks regarding the vaccines to be procured from Germany.
As regards the lifting of the embargo imposed by the Gulf countries against Qatar, President Erdoğan said that the lifting of the embargo was a very accurate and auspicious decision.