President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards Ceremony at Beştepe Culture and Convention Center. President Erdoğan made a speech at the ceremony. Underscoring that culture and arts are among the distinctive features of independence just like flag and land, President Erdoğan noted that societies that lack their own works, accumulations and policies of culture and arts are doomed to get crushed under the hegemony, overt or covert, of societies which are powerful in terms of these aspects. The 2019 Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards were granted to the late Nuri Pakdil...
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On his Twitter account, Director of Communications Prof. Fahrettin Altun shared a message about the US Senate's resolution to recognize the 1915 Armenian events as "genocide”. Stating that the attitude of some members of the US Congress undermined Turkish-American relations, Altun said: “The sanctions bill that passed yesterday in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Armenian resolution that passed today in the Senate endanger the future of our bilateral relationship. Since the beginning of the Peace Spring Operation, we’ve conveyed to our American counterparts the reasons and the goals of our military operation in northern Syria. Sanctions and threats...
President Erdoğan says project of artificial sea route to protect Bosphorus from risks Turkey will soon initiate the project of artificial sea-level waterway Canal Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. “We will initiate Canal Istanbul as soon as possible with a tender,” Erdogan told a meeting on social project of 100,000 houses for low-income people in capital Ankara. Erdogan added it is a “project to protect the Bosphorus from a serious disaster.” The planned canal is meant to provide relief to shipping traffic between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, particularly oil tanker traffic through...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the call, bilateral relations and regional issues, particularly Syria, were discussed.
The Presidential Cabinet convened under the chairmanship of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113904/presidential-cabinet-convenes-under-president-erdogan-s-chairmanship
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the International Forum of Women in Local Governments in Ankara. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113900/president-erdogan-attends-international-forum-of-women-in-local-governments
Speaking at an event marking the 75th anniversary of the exile of the Meskhetian Turks, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said: “We will not hesitate to defend the cause of the Meskhetian Turks on every platform even if everyone remains silent. The only way to even slightly ease the wounds in the hearts of our Meskhetian brothers and sisters is to enable every Meskhetian Turk, who desires so, to return to their homeland. No one should remain indifferent to further aggrievement of these people who have been longing to return to their homeland for 75 years.” https://www.tccb.gov.tr...
Ambassador Victor Rybak of Belarus, Ambassador Michael-Christos Diamessis of Greece and Ambassador José Luis Martínez y Hernández of Mexico presented their letters of credence to President Erdoğan at the Presidential Complex. Souvenir photographs were taken after families of ambassadors and some embassy officials were introduced to President Erdoğan. During the reception, President Erdoğan had a conversation with Mediha Sukriye Nami Martinez Hernandez Osmanoglu, who is Mexican Ambassador Hernandez’s wife and granddaughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II’s daughter Ayse Sultan. Mediha Osmanoglu, who has close relations with Turkish Embassy to Mexico and knows little Turkish,...
Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said that a weakened and outdated NATO would not contribute to world peace, Europe or the Middle East. On his Medium account, a micro blog platform, Altun published an article titled “In the wake of a summit: Where is NATO heading?” Altun noted that the NATO summit in London, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was among the participants, brought many discussions and said that, “We see that lately especially some countries bring forward Turkey’s position in NATO when NATO’s place in world politics is discussed. However, Turkey has been present for 67 years...