Holding a joint press conference with President Salih of Iraq, President Erdoğan said: “Our policy toward Iraq is based on preserving Iraq’s political unity and territorial integrity as well as ensuring its stability and security. Turkey is ready to make any kind of contribution to the efforts for Iraq’s stability and reconstruction.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Barham Salih of Iraq held a joint press conference at the Presidential Complex following their tête-à-tête and the meeting between the delegations. Expressing his pleasure to host President...
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Speaking at a meeting held by AK Party’s Ankara Branch, President Erdoğan said Ankara has also become the capital and heart of the defense industry over the past 16 years, adding that four of the world’s top 100 defense industry firms are located in Ankara, and that the city’s defense exports reached 873 million dollars as of the first 11 months of 2018 which he noted corresponds to almost half of Turkey’s total defense exports. President and AK Party Chairman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan participated in the AK Party’s Mayoral Candidates and Candidates for...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday sent New Year’s greetings to the world leaders including his U.S. and Russian counterparts. In a letter to U.S.’ Donald Trump, Erdogan described 2018 as a year, which Turkey and U.S. overcame the difficulties between the two countries and they mutually exerted efforts to carry the bilateral relations to the desired level. Calling Trump a “dear friend,” Erdogan said, “I believe that we will increase our bilateral relations based on mutual respect and sincere dialogue to the levels required by our strategic partnership and...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday wished "peace and tranquility" for all humanity across the world in 2019. In his message for New Year, Erdogan said: "We side with stability, justice, tolerance and peace across the world, together with our region." “Through this understanding, we defend the rights of Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, Tripoli, Sarajevo, and Crimea. Turkey is “not responsible for the incidents in our region and will not be a victim of them,” Erdogan said. “Developments in Syria are the result of these efforts,” he added. Turkey has conducted two successful cross-border...
Turkey's president on Sunday vowed that his country would continue to destroy terrorists as Ankara did in the past. "We went into the terrorists' den, destroyed and continuing to destroy them," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said indicating Ankara's recent counter-terrorism operations inside Turkey and in northwestern Syria. Erdogan was speaking at his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party meeting in Istanbul. In the last two years, Turkey has successfully carried out two counter-terrorist operations in Syria -- Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch -- to eradicate the presence of YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists near Turkey’s borders,...
Turkey’s president on Thursday honored the poet who penned the lyrics of the national anthem, 82 years after his passing. Speaking at a meeting of village and neighborhood heads at the presidential complex, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: "I commemorate Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who immortalized the [Turkish] people’s love of the flag." Ersoy, a Turkish-Albanian poet, was born in Ottoman-era Istanbul, in 1873, in the Fatih district. In 1921, in the wake of World War I, during Turkey’s War of Independence against foreign occupation, Ersoy wrote the Istiklal Marsi (Independence March). With music by Zeki Ungor, it was...
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that no justice should be expected from the UN. "Do not expect anything like justice from the UN Security Council and the United Nations, do not search for it, there is no such thing [there]," Erdogan said at an award ceremony for Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA). Erdogan said that Muslims are not given the right to speak about their issues and international problems at the UN Security Council. "The fact that the Islamic world, which has a population of 1.7 billion, does not...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks Tuesday in Ankara with Jordan’s Prime Minister Omar Razzaz and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi. Razzaz also met with Vice President Fuat Oktay. During their meeting, Razzaz and Oktay exchanged views on political and economic relations between Turkey and Jordan, according to presidential sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. The visit is the first to Turkey by Razzaz since he assumed his position in June. Safadi and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu also met. "At our meeting in Ankara, evaluated regional challenges w/Ayman Safadi, Foreign Minister of friendly&brotherly...
Turkey will be the 12th-largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP) next year, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. Currently, the country ranks 13th-largest economy based on PPP. In his parliamentary address at the group meeting of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Erdogan said that the government is determined to reduce the inflation rate to the targeted level in 2019. "Every step we have taken, aims to maintain our growth, development and strength," the president said. Turkey's annual inflation was 21.62 percent in November, according to the latest data from Turkish ...