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...
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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 ...
Turkey pursues the freedom of the Arabs and the Kurds with its presence in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. "We consider the security and peace of the Arabs in Syria as our own business. We see the problems of the Kurds as our own,” Erdogan told a ceremony at the Presidential Complex in capital Ankara. Turkey also regards the security and the peace of the Turkmens as its own business, the president said. He added: “Why have we presence in Syria now? To give the freedom of our Arab and Kurdish brothers there back, not...
Speaking at the financial session of the General Assembly of the DEİK, President Erdoğan said: “So long as we walk toward same goals, share the same enthusiasm and clamp together like the bricks of a wall, Turkey will, with Allah’s permission, continue to make new histories.” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended the financial session of the General Assembly of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK). “OUR EXPORT VOLUME HAS REACHED $170 BILLION” Delivering a speech at the session, President Erdoğan recalled that as of the end of this year they...
Statement on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump: President Erdoğan spoke by phone with U.S. President Trump this evening. Mr. President congratulated the new year of the U.S. people in the person of President Trump. Besides bilateral issues, the latest developments in Syria were also discussed. Expressing his pleasure over the steps taken by the U.S. administration regarding the fight against terror in Syria, President Erdoğan stressed that Turkey is ready to provide any kind of support to the U.S., Turkey’s NATO...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said the Israeli prime minister is heading "state terror", responding to his tweet attacking the Turkish president. Speaking at a mass opening ceremony in Istanbul's Arnavutkoy district, Turkish president said: "Erdogan is the voice of oppressed and you [Benjamin Netanyahu] are the voice of oppressors. You are conducting state terror." He went on to say: "Israel has no right to accuse anyone without accounting for its own sins, crimes against humanity, massacres and destruction." On Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his Twitter account, attacked Turkish president over Turkey'...
The presidents of Turkey and Palestine on Saturday discussed regional developments over a phone call, according to Turkish presidential sources. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Mahmoud Abbas also exchanged views on moves by various countries to relocate embassies to Jerusalem, the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said. The presidents also discussed preventing wrong steps that will hinder a solution to the Palestinian issue. Erdogan told Abbas that Turkey will continue to support Palestinian people, according to the sources. Late last year, U.S. President Donald Trump became the first leader to...