President Erdoğan attends 10th World Turkish Business Council
Speaking at the 10th World Turkish Business Council, President Erdoğan said: “The Turkic world, with its magnificent civilizational background open to innovation and development, with its powerful statecraft, with its strong social structure and with its visionary nongovernmental organizations, is indeed having a new awakening, a new leap forward.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a speech during the 10th World Turkish Business Council at Haliç Congress Center in Istanbul.
Underscoring that the number of the people of Turkish origin living, working, or studying in other countries has reached 8 million, President Erdoğan said: “We should include such member and observer states of the Organization of Turkic States as Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Turkmenistan and Hungary in this number. Thus, the picture before us will become much more meaningful.”
Noting that they cannot leave aside such friendly communities as the Western Thrace, the Balkans and the Caucasus from this picture, President Erdoğan stated: “It is not merely us who know the magnitude of this power represented here with all their homelands and diasporas. Those who see this picture as a threat to their own interests are aware of this fact as well. The Turkic world, with its magnificent civilizational background open to innovation and development, with its powerful statecraft, with its strong social structure and with its visionary nongovernmental organizations, is indeed having a new awakening, a new leap forward.”
