Speaking on the Human Rights Day, President Erdoğan said: “We stand by all the downtrodden and wronged with all our strength wherever they are in the world. We set an example for humanity with this dignified stance of ours everywhere from Syria to Palestine to Somalia to Arakan.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at an event marking the December 10 Human Rights Day. Celebrating the December 10 Human Rights Day, the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, President Erdoğan noted that human beings possess natural rights due to...
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan talked to the family of Cafer Ceylan, who has been rescued from PKK, and expressed his sincere sympathy. President Erdoğan talked over the phone with parents of Cafer Ceylan, born in 2000 and kidnapped by PKK terrorist organization in 2015, and expressed his sympathy to mother Hatice Ceylan and father Abdulkadir Ceylan. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu accompanied Erdoğan as he talked to Hatice Ceylan over the phone. Hatice Ceylan had previously joined sit-in protests outside the Provincial Office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) staged by mothers from Diyarbakır whose children have been...
Following is the message President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued on the occasion of December 10 Human Rights Day: “On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I would like to congratulate the Human Rights Day of Turkish citizens and the whole world. Unfortunately, we celebrate this day at the end of a year, in which the rights guaranteed by the Declaration were violated, injustice increased, innocents were murdered because of their faith, and new walls were built between compassion and humanity. Terrorist attacks carried out in this year that...
President Erdoğan says other int'l actors cannot carry out activities in areas marked in maritime deal With the maritime deal between Turkey and Libya, Ankara has shown the world its determination to protect its rights under international law, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Erdogan was speaking at a live televised interview with TRT, country’s public broadcaster. On Nov. 27, Turkey and Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli signed the bilateral memorandum. The memorandum asserts Turkey’s rights in the Eastern Mediterranean in the face of unilateral drilling by the Greek Cypriot administration,...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Foreign Minister of Pakistan Shah Mahmood Qureshi at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113861/president-erdogan-receives-foreign-minister-qureshi-of-pakistan
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113856/president-erdogan-meets-with-council-of-europe-secretary-general-buri-
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. https://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/113852/president-erdogan-meets-with-president-ghani-of-afghanistan
Speaking at the 1st Session of the OIC Ministerial Conference on Social Development, President Erdoğan said: “We will continue to uphold the truth and justice and stand by the oppressed at all costs. We will never stop defending the Al-Quds cause and the rights of the Palestinians or acting in solidarity with all the oppressed.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the 1st Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ministerial Conference on Social Development. Underscoring that the OIC is founded on the Palestinian cause, President Erdoğan noted: “Unfortunately, the situation in Palestine and in...
Speaking at the OIC Investment Conference, President Erdoğan said: “Material and historical conditions are highly favorable in order for Islamic countries to grow economically and achieve a higher level of welfare. It is important for Islamic countries to establish an effective mechanism of cooperation and implement it with determination.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) High Level Public and Private Investment Conference in Istanbul. Wishing for the OIC Investment Conference to bring about auspicious developments for the Islamic world and entrepreneurs, President Erdoğan noted that the conference serves as...