Holding a joint press conference with President Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan, President Erdoğan said: “As Ismail Bey Gaspirali pointed out, we will walk towards the goal of ‘unity in language, work and opinion’ with firm steps. As long as our hearts beat together, we are confident that we, with Allah’s permission, will put the Turkic world’s stamp on our century.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan held a joint press conference following their meeting at the Presidential Complex.
President Erdoğan said: “We are pleased to witness that a major restructuring process has started in the Uzbekistani economy under the leadership of my brother Shavkat. Turkish companies, with their investments worth over five billion dollars, rank among the top three investors in Uzbekistan. We will inshallah reach much better levels. Türkiye is determined to do its utmost to contribute to the welfare of both Uzbekistan and the Central Asia, our fatherland.”
Stressing that Türkiye and Uzbekistan are in close cooperation at the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) as well, which he described as a “family assembly”, President Erdoğan stated: “My brother Shavkat significantly contributed to the designation of December 15 as the World Turkic Language Family Day during UNESCO’s 43rd General Conference in November last year in Samarkand. I hereby would like to thank him once more. As Ismail Bey Gaspirali—whom the late great Uzbek poet Abdulhamid Sulaymon o'g'li Chulpon referred to as ‘the master that awakened us‘,—pointed out, we will walk towards the goal of ‘unity in language, work and opinion’ with firm steps. As long as our hearts beat together, we are confident that we, with Allah’s permission, will put the Turkic world’s stamp on our century. In my brother Shavkat’s presence, I also would like to openly state that Uzbekistan displayed a principled stance regarding Israel’s attacks on Gaza and other Palestinian territories under occupation. I would like to once again congratulate through Mr. President my Uzbekistani brothers and sisters, who courageously stood by the oppressed at a time when our humanity was tested once more.”
