Monday, December 02, 2013
Erdogan said that Turkey was known as a country which advocated for the rightness, stood by the right one and struggled for right values.
We are walking to the future with the inspiration we have got from
our history, said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday.
Speaking his Justice & Development (AK) Party's meeting in
Turkey's western Mugla province, Erdogan said reffering to the recent
incidents in Egypt and Syria, "If we remained silent towards the
incidents in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan and
Somalia, if we did not help the victims of the earthquakes in the
Philippines, Haiti and Georgia, we could not be a powerful country, and
could not grow our economy."
Noting that powerful countries had friends as well as opponents,
Erdogan said that Turkey was known as a country which advocated for the
rightness, stood by the right one and struggled for right values.
Also touching on Turkey's tourism, the prime minister said that
Turkey had been hosting about 13 million tourists yearly when they took
office, adding that this figure increased to 35.7 million in the end of
2012.
"Some people said that none of the tourists would visit Turkey when
the AK Party took the power and that the party would ban tourism," noted
Erdogan, adding that tourism income had been about 8.5 billion USD on
that period, however today it reached 29 billion USD.
The prime minister said Turkey would outpace the year of 2012 both in terms of tourist number and tourism income.