Presidency’s Communications Director Prof. Fahrettin Altun issued a message on the occasion of March 18th Martyrs' Day and Canakkale Victory. Prof. Altun’s message read the following: “Our nation showed the whole world its faith and its love for independence with a heroic saga in Canakkale. I commemorate with mercy and gratitude our independence heroes, particularly Ghazi Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and all those who fell martyr without blinking an eye.”
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President and Justice and Development (AK) Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan along with Chairman Devlet Bahçeli of the Nationalist Movement Party attended a joint campaign rally of the People’s Alliance in the province of İzmir in the run-up to the local elections scheduled for March 31, 2019. “We have invested TL67 billion in İzmir in the last 17 years” Delivering a speech at the rally, President Erdoğan said that they have invested TL67 billion in İzmir in the last 17 years. Noting that they built 9 687 classrooms, 3 universities, 6 330-bed dormitories, youth centers, sports halls, an olympic pool, 109 medical facilities, 18 000 residential units, 28...
As descendants of Canakkale's martyrs, Turkish people will never compromise their independence, future and freedom, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. “We are strongly opposed to treacherous plans against our nation and we work tirelessly with all of our citizens; man, woman, young and old, shoulder to shoulder, to build a bright future,” Erdogan said in a message to mark Canakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day. He stressed the Canakkale Victory is a glorious victory which brought to heel the most advanced militaries of the era. “Turkish nation, commemorates the 104th anniversary of the Canakkale Victory with great pride and...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday marked the 31st anniversary of the Halabja Massacre in which thousands of Kurds killed and injured. In a Twitter post, Erdogan said the chemical attack on Kurdish-populated Iraqi city of Halabja is still a fresh "wound". "The wound opened in the conscience of humanity when thousands of civilians were killed by a chemical attack in Halabja 31 years ago maintains its freshness today. "I wish God's mercy for our Kurdish brothers who lost their lives in the Halabja Massacre which went down on history as a black mark," Erdogan said. On March 16, 1988, between 5,000...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech during a gathering of citizens that hail from Samsun and currently reside in Istanbul. “The past is a compass for the future” Recalling that the centennial of the start of the Turkish War of Independence will be celebrated this year with various events, President Erdoğan underlined that they will once again highlight through those events how Ghazi Mustafa Kemal and his comrades in arms reached victory in the War of Independence despite all the privations at the time. “We will do so because the past is a compass for the future....
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the North Marmara Highway. “We have boosted Turkey’s prestige abroad” “We have put into action the greatest democratic reforms, initiatives of rights and freedoms in our country’s history. We have enriched and grown our country so much more in the last 17 years. We have achieved services 5-10 times more than done in the Republican era in all areas from education to healthcare, from transportation to energy, from sports to social assistance. That is not the end of it. We have also boosted Turkey’s prestige...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday urged New Zealand to bring the culprits of Friday's twin mosque attacks to account, describing the incident as a "massacre". Addressing a rally in northwestern Tekirdag province, Erdogan blasted the gunman who killed worshippers and named Istanbul in an alleged manifesto, spewing anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant propaganda, posted on social media. “He came to Istanbul for three days once and 40 days for the second time. What are his connections? We will find out. “He talked nonsense by saying ‘we will kill you if you cross west of the Strait, we will...
Even in face of Islamophobic attacks, Muslims will never come to heel, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday following twin mosque attacks in New Zealand which killed at least 49. "As Muslims, we will never come to heel and never come down to the level of these cowards," Erdogan told a campaign rally in the southeastern Gaziantep province. Erdogan's remarks came after attacks targeting worshippers at two New Zealand mosques in Christchurch that also left some 48 wounded -- including three Turkish citizens. "This killer [behind the attacks] releases a statement targeting our country, our nation, myself, and all Muslims," he...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the funeral of Prof. Beril Dedeoğlu, who was a member of the Presidential Security and Foreign Policies Council and the Council of Higher Education, in Istanbul. Delivering a brief speech at the funeral, President Erdoğan offered his condolences to Prof. Dedeoğlu’s family, the academia and to the Turkish people. “I vehemently condemn the attack in New Zealand” “I would like to take this occasion to vehemently condemn the attack in New Zealand against Muslims who convened to perform the Friday prayer,” President Erdoğan said. “The Islamophobia, which has long...