Turkish people

Some 20,000 Turks traveled to five Greek islands in the Aegean Sea during the nine-day-long Eid al-Fitr break after Greece launched the visa-on-arrival scheme for Turkish holidaymakers.

The number of Turkish tourists visiting those Greek islands increased by 20 percent compared to the same period of last year.

In 1983 the Turks set up a puppet-regime in the territory they had seized calling it the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”. It is the Turks who are “occupying” 36% of the territory of Cyprus

Türkiye marked the 2,232nd anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Land Forces Command with a statement on the National Defense Ministry's social media account.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that 1,700,000 people attended the great Istanbul rally of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on May 7.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on millions of earthquake survivors to not give into pessimism as the government and the people of Türkiye continue to stand with them by providing assistance and new permanent shelters.

Türkiye has decorated local and foreign rescue teams as well as miners, volunteers, civil society and public disaster authorities who saved lives and healed the wounds of the devastating February earthquakes with state medal.

While marking the marking International Day of Zero Waste, observed for the first time on March 30, first lady Emine Erdoğan has expressed that if thousands of children are still losing their lives in different parts of the world due to drought caused by climate change, there is not a minute to be lost to stop this situation.

With the revival of the economy, industrial production and other activities, the return of locals to the earthquake-hit provinces will accelerate in the coming period, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 24 promised to heal the wounds of the victims of powerful earthquakes that hit Türkiye's southern region and claimed more than 50,000 lives.

"Together we will remove the traces of this disaster," Erdoğan said at a ceremony in quake-hit Hatay province.

Within the scope of the Suna'nın Kızları initiative of Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, safe centers for young girls in temporary settlement areas in quake-stricken provinces will be established.