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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met reporters in Malaysia, where he attended the Kuala Lumpur Summit. Erdoğan made the following remarks about the Kuala Lumpur Summit: “We are currently in Kuala Lumpur after Geneva and we attended the Kuala Lumpur Summit organized under the initiative of Mahathir Mohamad, the Prime Minister of Malaysia. We had an opportunity to discuss the problems faced by the Muslim world at the summit attended by Heads of State and Government of Turkey, Malaysia, Qatar and Iran as well as senior officials from many other countries. Even though it was scheduled, Indonesia and Pakistan...

Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on behalf of Turkey during a ceremony under the supervision of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad. The “Communication Project on the Fight against Islamophobia” for which an MOU has been signed between Turkey and Malaysia, aims to form a structure to fight against anti-Islamic sentiments. With an operational centre decided to be based in Istanbul, the Communication Project aims to fight against institutional, structural and discursive forms of prejudice and bigotry against Islam and Muslims. Among the objectives of the project is...

Addressing a roundtable in Malaysia on the priority of development and the challenges, President Erdoğan said: “Trade in national currencies has gained urgency amid talks of trade wars. We should first of all put the issue of Islamic finance on our agenda.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at a round-table meeting on the priority of development and the challenges as part of the Kuala Lumpur Summit in Malaysia. “It makes our financial markets fragile against shocks and manipulations that we don’t have our own payment systems” Stating that the problems and troubles faced by the...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Malaysia for the Kuala Lumpur Summit, met with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/114027/president-erdogan-meets-with-president-rouhani-of-iran

Speaking at the opening session of the Kuala Lumpur Summit, President Erdoğan renewed his call that the global order is in need of a new restructuring built upon justice and fairness, and said: “The order, which was created by the victors of the Second World War to protect their own interests and which abandons the fate of the Islamic world of 1.7 billion population to the whim of the five permanent members of the Security Council, has already come to the end of its life span.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the opening session of the...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the opening session of the Kuala Lumpur Summit. Following their arrival at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center where the summit will be held, President Erdoğan and other heads of state and government attending the summit posed for a family photo.   President Erdoğan attended the opening session of the Summit together with First Lady Emine Erdoğan. Erdoğan will then attend the round table meeting on “Priority of Development and The Challenges”.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Malaysia for the Kuala Lumpur Summit, met with King of Malaysia Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/114020/president-erdogan-meets-with-king-of-malaysia-al-sultan-abdullah-ri-ayatuddin-al-mustafa-billah-shah

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met reporters on the sidelines of the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Commenting on the Global Refugee Forum, Erdoğan said: “During our time in Geneva on the occasion of the UN Global Refugee Summit, we held bilateral meetings and shared our opinions on the refugee crisis with the UN. I received the Prime Minister of Somalia. We have discussed bilateral relations and the situation in Eastern Africa. You would recall the great humanitarian crisis in Somalia when we first visited the country on a Ramadan day. The situation has been improving gradually. Thankfully...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is in Malaysia to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit, met with Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya. During the meeting, President Erdoğan and Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr Mahathir also presided over the signing ceremony of 15 documents in various fields, including technology and defense industry. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/114014/president-erdogan-meets-with-prime-minister-of-malaysia-tun-dr-mahathir