President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated the Turkish Women's National Volleyball Team, on winning the bronze medal in the European Volleyball Championship by defeating the Netherlands 3-0 in the third-place match in Serbia. In a post shared on his Twitter account, President Erdoğan stated the following: "I sincerely congratulate our Women's National Volleyball Team on winning the bronze medal at the CEV 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship. On behalf of all of Türkiye, I would like to thank the Sultans of the Net who fought right to the end." A congratulatory phone call from President Erdoğan President...
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Speaking at the AK Party's provincial consultative meeting in Rize, President Erdoğan said: “We work to leave to the next generations a more prosperous, prestigious and powerful country while also developing our cities with road projects, environmental projects, residential projects and tunnel projects.” President and Justice and Development (AK) Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the AK Party’s extended provincial consultative meeting in Rize. “We work to leave to the next generations a more prosperous, prestigious and powerful country while also developing our cities with road projects, environmental projects, residential projects and tunnel projects,...
Delivering remarks at the opening ceremony of Salarha Tunnel in Rize, President Erdoğan said: “May the nearly 3-kilometer-long Salarha Tunnel, which will ease the inner city traffic in Rize and and shorten the travel time across the mountain, be auspicious for you and our country!” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered remarks at the opening ceremony of Salarha Tunnel in Rize. President Erdoğan said: “May the nearly 3-kilometer-long Salarha Tunnel, which will ease the inner city traffic in Rize and and shorten the travel time across the mountain, be auspicious for you and our country!” “FOLLOWING THE OPENING...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated, "Against all the odds, the Turkish nation, which maintained its unity and solidarity with the will and resolve displayed at the Sivas Congress, emerged victorious from the National War of Independence." President Erdoğan issued a message on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of the Sivas Congress. Stating that the Sivas Congress was a historical turning point for the Turkish nation where decisions were taken to declare to the world that they would never give up on their independence, flag and homeland, President Erdoğan said, "Against all the odds, the Turkish nation,...
The documentary "Never Forget," produced by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications, will air tonight at 20:00 on TRT Documentary Channel. According to the statement made by TRT, the documentary presents the massacres carried out by the terrorist organisation PKK for nearly 40 years and the sufferings experienced as a result of these massacres through the eyes of victims, witnesses and martyrs' relatives. The documentary, which will be broadcast on television for the first time, was produced to prevent the PKK from creating a perception on the international arena by exploiting Kurdish identity, to pay tribute to the martyrs, and to strengthen the...
Speaking at the opening ceremony of İyidere-İkizdere road and tunnels, President Erdoğan said: “Regardless of the circumstances, we have always worked with all our strength to keep up the democratic and economic development momentum of Turkey.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered remarks at the opening ceremony of İyidere-İkizdere road and tunnels. Thanking everyone, who had contributed to the project, President Erdoğan said: “The İyidere-İkizdere road is approximately 38 kilometers long. One of the tunnels in Hurmalık is 850 meters and the other one is 720 meters long. The access roads are 3.6 kilometers long.” Noting that the ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated the National Women's Goalball Team, which won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. President Erdoğan spoke by phone with the National Team, which won the gold medal at the Paralympic Games for the second time in a row, via the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mehmet Muharrem Kasapoğlu, who was in Tokyo. Congratulating the national athletes, President Erdoğan said, "You have brought us tremendous joy. You have made us proud, particularly with your victory against the United States. I wish you continued success in the future." Sevda Altunoluk, the...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the appointment ceremony of teachers. Delivering a speech at the ceremony held at Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul, President Erdoğan, underscoring that the average class size in Turkey, which had once been some 30, was now 22 that nearly corresponded to the OECD’s average class size, said: “Today, the average class size at elementary schools in Turkey are lower than that of in such countries as the UK, Australia and France, and are nearly at the same level as in Germany and the US. In the similar vein, with the appointments we made, we...
Presidency's Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun commemorated Pilot Captain Cengiz Topel with mercy and gratitude. Topel was the first air force martyr in the history of the Republic, who was martyred in 1964 as a result of the downing of his plane by the Greek Cypriots during the flight of the Turkish Air Forces in Cyprus. Altun shared the video prepared by the Presidency's Directorate of Communications about Cengiz Topel on his Twitter account. The video pointed out that after the foundation of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960, the persecution and oppression against the Turkish people on the island increased and...