President Erdoğan calls for Türkiye to unite in light of crumbling world order

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the country's citizens to unite, considering the latest outbreak of escalations in the region, and has reiterated that Ankara will continue to do everything in its power to further diplomacy.

He made the statement during a meeting of the parliamentary group of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, Caliber.Az reports citing the Turkish Daily Sabah.

President Erdoğan also underlined in his speech that the country started to invest in and develop its defence industry at the right time, "looking at the regional developments and the world order breaking down."

Pointing to global tensions and increasing conflicts, such as the surge in violence between Iran and Israel, Erdoğan said that Türkiye must stand united and take steps that have been laid out through the terror-free Türkiye initiative.

It was originally launched by government ally Devlet Bahçeli, head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who called on the PKK’s jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan to appeal to the PKK to lay down arms last year. The Kurdish terrorist group announced its dissolution and the end of its forty-year campaign of terror earlier this year, which had cost tens of thousands of lives across Türkiye as well as in Iraq and Syria.

Speaking on the latest military clashes between Israel and Iran, the Turkish president reassured the public in his speech that the "government is fully committed to safeguarding Türkiye's interests, peace, unity and security," and has stated that preparations are in place "for every possible negative development and scenario."

By Nazrin Sadigova