Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Abiy Ahmed visited Ankara on Wednesday, August 19, where he met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A visit organized on the 125th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The program of the meeting included military relations around the Tigrayan conflict but also obstacles to rebirth, economic…

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a telephone conversation with his Tunisian counterpart, Kais Saied, late Monday, stressing the importance of democracy and the protection of freedoms in the midst of a coup that is seen as a coup. According to a statement from the Communications Directorate, Erdoğan emphasized that Tunisia's stability and peace were "very important to the region" and that Turkey was closely following developments in the North African country. Erdoğan added that the Turkish government…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered to secure Afghanistan’s vital Kabul international airport in a bid to improve US-Turkey relations as American and NATO troops complete their pullout from the war-battered country. But a Taliban warning underscores the military and diplomatic challenges of the Turkish offer. The drive to Kabul’s main airport has turned into a crawl during the 20-year US security presence in Afghanistan, with ever-increasing security checkpoints slowing travellers as they inch towards the…

After Paris and Cairo, Mohamed el-Menfi, President of the Libyan Presidential Council, visited Ankarace on Friday 26 March. There he met with Turkish Prime Minister Reçep Tayyip Erdogan. A "working meeting", confirms the news agency Anadolu, to "discuss the multi-rooted relations" between the two countries. An official request came to President Reçep Tayyip Erdogan to withdraw Syrian mercenaries as well as Turkish military experts who were present in Tripoli at the end of May 2020. According to a Libyan government…

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan congratulated the Libyan unity government and said that recent developments in the war-torn country have promised hope for a permanent solution. The president held separate telephone talks with Mohammad Younes Menfi, head of Libya's presidential council and prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, according to a statement from the Turkish president's communications directorate. Erdoğan stressed that Turkey is ready to provide all necessary support to ensure Libya's…