“We aim to continue peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean and work to maintain a positive atmosphere with our neighboring Greece. We are closely monitoring developments in the Balkans and continue our cooperation with the countries of the region. We have recently increased our efforts to record the dominant equality and equivalent international regime of the Turkish Cypriot people. We will continue with patience until justice is given to the island. ” That was the report of Tayyip Erdogan Compared to Greece, in his approximately two -hour speech yesterday, at the diplomacy forum of Antalya, where he referred to a number of issues related to Turkey’s foreign policy.

Turkey’s role in NATO

Turkey’s president referred to the upgraded role played by his country within NATO that called it “one of the country’s Turkish Foreign Policy and Security building blocks” and reiterated that “these days when NATO’s future discussions and European security are not only in the day. Administration of NATO’s second largest terrestrial army, Turkey is ready to take responsibility for European security in the future, especially with its defense industry, where it has taken major steps in recent years. ” He did not fail to refer to his friendly relationship with Donald Trump, expressing confidence that the US relationship would improve even further.

Criticism in the EU

Tayyip Erdogan accused “some European countries that unfortunately cannot show the horizon, courage and strategic perspective that gave life to the European Union three quarters of the century ago.” He called on the European Union to overcome current challenges and to be represented in the new global system as it deserves. For this to happen, the EU “must act accordingly, get rid of its burdens and Turkey to regain its headquarters in the Union as a full member as soon as possible. We are ready and determined to promote our integration process. We also expect the European Union to take specific steps. “

Attack on Israel

Once again, Turkey’s president used extremely acute tones against Israel. “As long as Israel’s state terrorism continues in Gaza, efforts to cease fire are sabotaged and the bombs are falling on innocent, it is very difficult to make a constant peace in our region,” he said. “The Israeli government is trying to uproot the Palestinian people from its territories and make it experience a second disaster and genocide. Israel is trying to legitimize the massacres it has committed against our brothers from Gaza and the Palestinians who exercise their legal right to resist the Occupation, calling them terrorists. “

He called on the international community to stand more decisively next to the Palestinians, saying that “anyone who is silent on the massacres of Israel is a complicit in this crime. For a year and a half, Israel has committed a pure genocide against the Palestinian people, ignoring the most basic human rights and violating international law. “

For Syria

“We are one of the countries that have borne the burden of 14 years of conflict and volatility in our neighboring Syria and we paid the price for it,” the Turkish president argued, adding that “we do not see the territorial integrity, stability and security of our neighboring Syria, with which we are 911.

For this reason, he said, “in a very close dialogue with all the factors with influence in the region, especially with Mr Trump and Mr Putin, on the maintenance of the territorial integrity and stability of Syria. We will continue to take all the necessary steps with determination in the context of this common understanding, our country’s security plans and the agreements between us and the Syrian government. “

For Ukrainian

“Our relations with the Russian Federation, with which we have a deep -rooted history, are developing day by day on a multidimensional basis. We are determined to promote our cooperation with Russia, with which we share common geography, on the basis of mutual interest and respect, “Erdogan stressed, adding that it is a priority to end the Russian-Ukrainian war, which has entered the fourth year. He referred to the role of his country by saying, “We have taken many steps, including the Black Sea initiative, the exchange of prisoners and the Istanbul process. We will continue to maintain our balanced and preventive attitude we hold from the first day. “

For the Kurdish

Determined to get rid of “the scourge of terrorism that has claimed in the country for 40 years, thousands of lives of citizens and billions of dollars in resources” Erdogan argued for Kurdish that “we hope we will have a very different momentum in the economy. We have no doubt that we will achieve our ideal, which finds its meaning in the expression of “century of Turkey”, with your support. ” And he concluded by saying: “I believe that Antalya’s diplomacy forum will also be a means of transmitting this vision to future generations and all friendly countries.”