The head of state, aged 69 and re-elected on May 28 with 52% of the votes, took the oath for a new five-year term and promeyours to assume “the duty with impartiality” before the 600 deputies elected on May 14th.
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“As president, I swear to protect the existence and independence of the state, the integrity of the homeland, the unconditional sovereignty of the nation, the rule of law (and) the principle of a secular republic, as conceived by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk”, the founder of the Republic, declared the president, known for his defense of Islamic and conservative positions.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by almost 20 heads of state, including Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro, and the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg.
Turkey is one of the 31 member states of the military alliance led by the United States and maintains its veto on Sweden's membership, claiming that the country offers refuge to opposition activists that Ankara considers “terrorists”.
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After the ceremony, Erdogan visited Atatürk's mausoleum, where he cited a “new era” and withpromeyours to “bring earthquake victims home as quickly as possible”.
At least 50.000 people died in the February 6 earthquake, which left millions homeless in the south of the country, including 3 million displaced.
NATO and Sweden
Saturday's ceremonies will end in the gigantic presidential palace built on Erdogan's orders in an area far from the center of the capital, where the head of state will offer a gala dinner to foreign leaders and the NATO secretary general.
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Turkey is one of the 31 member states of the military alliance led by the United States and maintains its veto on Sweden's membership, claiming that the country offers refuge to opposition activists that Ankara considers “terrorists”.
Stoltenberg wants Turkey to lift the veto before the organization's July summit in Lithuania.
Also attending the ceremonies were the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, and the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, as well as the Prime Ministers of Hungary, Viktor Orban (also opposed to Sweden's entry into NATO) and Qatar, Mohammed bin Abderrahman. al Thani, who were the first to congratulate Erdogan on his victory at the polls.
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Armenia and Turkey have never officially established diplomatic relations and the common border has been closed since the 1990s, but in 2022 the first steps towards rapprochement were recorded, despite Ankara's support for Azerbaijan in the territorial dispute over the Nagorno Karabakh region, a dispute between Yerevan and Baku.
Active diplomacy
The presence of several African heads of state – from Congo, Senegal, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa and Algeria – demonstrates the results of Ankara's active diplomacy on the continent.
The announcement of Erdogan's list of ministers will offer a clue to the head of state's guidelines to try to stimulate the country's economy, which is facing a serious crisis.
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The name of a renowned analyst and former employee of the American company Merrill Lynch, Mehmet Simsek, has been speculated for several days to lead the mission.
Former Finance Minister (2009-2015) and later Deputy Prime Minister responsible for the Economy (until 2018), the 56-year-old economist must adopt a line of financial orthodoxy to regain investor confidence.
Turkey has inflation above 40%, stimulated by frequent reductions in interest rates. The local currency, the Turkish lira, registered a price of 20,88 per dollar on Friday, despite billions of dollars invested in the campaign to prevent devaluation.
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