Feb 20, 2024. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
On
Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remarked that both Turkey
and Albania, as members of the NATO alliance, contribute
significantly to upholding peace and stability in the Balkans region.
Turkey and Albania are two members of the NATO alliance who play a role in maintaining peace and stability in the Balkans region, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday.
" Turkey and Albania are two NATO allies contributing to the preservation of
peace and stability in the Balkans," Erdoğan told a joint news conference
in the capital Ankara with Edi Rama, Albania's prime minister, who is paying a
one-day official visit.
Erdoğan
said Albania was on "the right side of the history" in a UN General
Assembly vote last December in favor of an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in
the Gaza Strip, stressing the crucial importance of its solidarity with the
"oppressed Palestinian people" at this time, over four months into
Israeli onslaught in Gaza, which has taken nearly 30,000 lives.
On the
subject of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), a group that mounted a
failed coup in Türkiye in 2016 but continues to infiltrate and threaten other
countries, Erdoğan said: "We will not allow the nefarious network
attempting to poison our relations through the FETO terrorist organization to
succeed; we will continue our fight against them."
Erdoğan
added that Turkey has elevated its trade volume with Albania to the level of $1
billion, and now they seek to double this to $2 billion.
Turkish
relations with the Balkan nation of Albania derive their strength from shared
history and strong social and cultural bonds, according to the Turkish Foreign
Ministry.
Anews
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