Fahrettin Altun

With the theme "Power and Paradox: Understanding Grand Strategy in the 21st Century", TRT World Forum, which will be held on the 19th and 20th of October, has started today at 12.00 pm with the opening speech delivered by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrived in Russia to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sept. 29. 

Erdogan has been received by Putin at his official residence in the resort town of Sochi.

Turkey's president and Britain's prime minister held a closed-door meeting on Sept. 20 in New York.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Boris Johnson at the Turkevi Center, or Turkish House, in Manhattan across from U.N. headquarters.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 15 vowed a stronger Turkey by the republic's centenary. 

Erdoğan delivered a speech at a ceremony for the 6th Anadolu Media Awards which took place at the presidential compound in the capital Ankara.

Turkey and Montenegro set a $250 million trade volume target, the visiting Turkish president said on Aug. 28. 

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic in the city of Cetinje, the former royal capital of Montenegro.

A thermal power plant and its surrounding town on the Aegean Sea were being evacuated on Aug. 4 as a deadly wildfire that has ravaged Turkey for the past week engulfed its outer edge.

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Turkey has taken all necessary precautions to prevent any loss of life at the scene of a fire near the plant, the country's communications director said early Thursday.

The number of people who have lost their lives due to massive forest fires in southern Turkey has risen to eight, the country's agriculture and forestry minister announced on Aug. 1.

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,Prosecutors are investigating the causes of wildfires that have been raging through Turkey's south, Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül said early July 30.

"They are looking into every aspect of the incidents and every possibility and all authorities are taking the necessary measures," he said on his Twitter account.

Turkey's communications director on July 24 criticized France's parliament for passing a controversial bill, stressing that it would further marginalize Muslims and other religious minorities.

Turkey's communications director Fahrettin Altun has reacted to reports suggesting that some media outlets in Turkey receive funds from foreign countries.