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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with the members of TÜBİTAK Covid-19 Turkey Platform.   President Erdoğan visited the facilities after the Inauguration Ceremony for TÜBİTAK Centers of Excellence.   Erdoğan then returned to the ceremonial ground and met with the members of TÜBİTAK Covid-19 Turkey Platform. The meeting was held closed to the press.   Speaking for a minute, each member explained the developments in domestic and national pharmaceutical production. President Erdoğan gave the order to bring the issue to the agenda at the Cabinet Meeting to be held tomorrow...

Speaking at the opening ceremony of TUBITAK’s Centers of Excellence, President Erdoğan highlighted Turkey’s efforts against COVID-19, and said: “We have made significant progress in our projects to develop vaccines and drugs for COVID-19 in cooperation with the private sector, universities and the state. We rank third right after the U.S. and China in the WHO’s list of countries developing local vaccine. The COVID-19 Turkey Platform, led by TUBITAK, currently runs eight different projects for vaccine and 10 different projects for drug.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the opening ceremony of TUBITAK�...

Presidency’s Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun gave a speech at the opening of the university preferences event, TercihFest (PreferFest), organized online in collaboration with Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul Technical University, and Health Sciences University. Noting that the world at present is very different from 20 years ago, Altun stated that the change and transformation of the world are reflected in the application areas and theories of social sciences as well as in the social world. Stating that instead of paradigms such as “end of history”, “liberal globalization”, “globalization” of the 1990s, “trade” and “culture wars” and even “hot war” were...

Directorate of Communications announced the number of cases, deaths, and discharges in countries affected by coronavirus (Covid-19) throughout the world as of August 7, 2020, 23:00.   Directorate of Communications shared a post on its Twitter account, stating that the number of people infected with Covid-19, which broke out in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China, exceeded 19 million 408 thousand.   The post also provided information regarding the current situation in Turkey, and noted:  “Turkey has conducted a total of 5,138,528 tests so far. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has reached 238,450, while 5,813 citizens have lost their lives and 221,574 patients have...

Answering reporters’ questions after performing Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, President Erdoğan described the explosion in Lebanon as a huge disaster, and said: “We will stand by Lebanon, the Lebanese people and Beirut with everything we have, both materially and morally.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan answered reporters’ questions after performing Friday prayer at the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque. “TURKEY CANNOT LEAVE THE BROTHERLY LEBANON ALONE” On the explosion in Beirut, President Erdoğan noted that there is no clear information as of now regarding the perpetrators of the incident. Stressing that Turkey is closely following...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a video message to the memorial ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima. President Erdoğan said they were commemorating one of the darkest days in human history, the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, with great sorrow and pain. Paying homage once again to the memories of the victims of this catastrophe, Erdoğan said: "To the friendly people of Japan, to the loved ones of the victims who for 75 years have been trying to ease the pain in their hearts, I offer my condolences. We, Humanity, have to succeed in...

Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said, “We stand in solidarity with the people of Lebanon. We share their pain and we are proud to help them heal their wounds.” In his remarks on his Twitter account, Altun said, “We stand in solidarity with the people of Lebanon and share their pain. We are proud to help them heal their wounds. Our military cargo plane, Koca Yusuf, is delivering the Turkish people’s aid to Lebanon. The people and government of Turkey serve the cause of peace and stability.”

Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun stated that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan conveyed his opinion to the Council of Higher Education that “it would be more beneficial to shut down the open education psychology undergraduate programs” with regard to the related report of the Presidency’s Education and Teaching Policies Council.   In a post shared on his Twitter account, Altun stated that the Presidency’s Education and Teaching Policies Council prepared a report noting that “psychology undergraduate education requires a great deal of practice and that it would be more appropriate to conduct formal education in order to protect...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Prime Minister Ersin Tatar of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). President Erdoğan went to Vahdettin Mansion in Çengelköy at noon from his residence in Kısıklı. Erdoğan received TRNC Prime Minister Ersin Tatar at Vahdettin Mansion. Vice President Fuat Oktay was also present at the meeting. The meeting, which was closed to the press, lasted around 1.5 hours.