WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESSWIRE / September 20, 2024 / The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a collection of speeches by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from 2005 to 2024 with research from the MEMRI Turkish Studies Project.
Turkey's Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, AKP) won the general elections held on November 3, 2002, and four months later, in March 2003, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the country's prime minister. In August 2014, Erdoğan became the president and in 2018 the office of prime minister was abolished entirely. Though while he was prime minister there was a president, and while he has been president there was, for a time, a prime minister, he has been the most powerful political leader in Turkey since November 2002. His rule, which has now lasted over two decades, has already been longer than any Turkish leader in the past century, including that of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Erdoğan won re-election in May 2023, and the next general elections are to be held at the latest by May 7, 2028.
MEMRI's Turkish Media Studies Project has been monitoring Turkish-language media since 2004 and has published hundreds of reports and clips documenting and analyzing material translated from Turkish, of which Erdoğan's speeches are only one section. This compilation reflects how Erdoğan's rhetoric and policies are antisemitic, anti-American, and expansionist. Among other things, he intrudes on European internal affairs and, alarmingly, has expressed an interest in acquiring nuclear weapons.
Click here to view a compilation of clips from MEMRI TV's extensive archives featuring speeches by President Erdoğan over the past decade in which he discusses military action against Israel, Hamas members being treated in Turkish hospitals, his desire to obtain nuclear weapons, shutting down U.S. military bases in Turkey, and other relevant military and diplomatic issues.
This is a closed report. Media and government employees can request a full copy of this compilation by emailing media@memri.org. Please include your name, title, and organization in your email.
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