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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' upcoming visit to Türkiye presents an opportunity to enhance ties between Ankara and Athens.

"This visit is an important stage in Türkiye-Greece relations," Erdogan told a group of journalists in Istanbul on April 19.

The government is working on measures to increase public sector savings, Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz has said.

The Finance Ministry and the presidency of strategy and budget authority are carrying out studies on public sector savings, with more than 15 articles being worked upon, and they will be implemented, Yılmaz told reporters after the cabinet meeting earlier this week.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasised new regional conflicts are likely to continue in Gaza and called on all parties to act within reason

Sinan Ciddi, a non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), joins Thanos Davelis to look at why Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking steps to restrict exports to Israel now, and break down how this fits into the broader post-election narrative after the oppositions sweeping victory on March 31st.

There is talk of a new era in Turkish politics. Following the recent local elections, all sides agree that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the big loser. With Turkey's economic challenges the paramount concern, foreign policy played a marginal role in the electoral discourse.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused a "global alliance" of complicity in oppression in various parts of the world, alleging they also had Türkiye in their sights.

"Whatever step we took in Syria, Libya and Karabakh, we found a global alliance against us," Erdoğan said during a rally speech in northwestern province of Bursa on March 28 ahead of this weekend's elections.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has denounced the failure of leading nations to address escalating tensions worldwide.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has pledged to elevate Türkiye into the ranks of the world's 10 largest economies, vowing to double the nation's economic size in the coming years.

Türkiye will continue its efforts to achieve complete independence in the defense industry, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Friday.

"We will not stop or turn back from our path until we achieve the goal of a fully independent Türkiye in the defense industry,"  Erdoğan said at a rally in the northern province of Çankırı.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed confidence in Türkiye's economic trajectory, citing improved indicators and increased national income over the past 21 years.

"Türkiye is a player in a very different league today, with 32 million employees and 16 million retirees," he told a crowd during a rally in Isparta ahead of the upcoming local elections.