With the swearing in of 600 deputies, in the presence of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the 28th term of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey began.

Tayyip Erdogan, who is sworn in on Saturday, was greeted with warm applause by AKP MPs and was visibly in high spirits.

Before the swearing-in of Ankara MPs, a minute’s silence was traditionally observed in memory of the founder of the modern Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal.

The first meeting of the Turkish national delegation was presided over by 75-year-old MHP (Nationalist Action Party) president Devlet Bakhceli, who is the oldest serving member of parliament, while CHP (Republican People’s Party) president Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who watched the swearing-in from the gallery , as he is no longer an MP. It is noted that Kilicdaroglu did not stand up like everyone else when Erdogan appeared.

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In Turkey’s Grand National Assembly, deputies are sworn in alone, which is why the process is expected to last until around midnight.

The ceremony was attended by many officials and representatives of foreign missions, including the ambassadors of the EU and the USA, and the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs V. Kaskarelis.

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As it became known on Friday night, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will attend the inauguration of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tomorrow Saturday, despite his country’s historically strained relations with Turkey.

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