{"id":205070,"date":"2025-12-26T14:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/205070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:39:22","slug":"erdogan-hails-economic-impact-of-turkish-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/205070\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan hails economic impact of Turkish diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANKARA
\n\"Erdo\u011fan<\/p>\n

President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/a> on Dec. 25 praised the Turkish <\/a>diaspora<\/a> as a vital pillar of the nation’s economic and political strength.<\/p>\n

“We see a strong Turkish diaspora that makes a very important contribution to our country’s economy, foreign policy and soft power,” Erdo\u011fan said during an event at the presidential complex in Ankara.<\/p>\n

He was addressing representatives of the Union of International Democrats (UID), a Germany-based organization dedicated to the Turkish community in Europe.<\/p>\n

“We are talking about a large workforce of over 7 million people who provide very important services to T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> and make a very significant contribution to the Turkish economy,” Erdo\u011fan said. “Even just the tourism figures are enough to understand what our friends abroad are doing for the Turkish economy.”<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan also emphasized that the diaspora serves as an economic engine in their host countries, operating tens of thousands of businesses.<\/p>\n

Much of this migration has historically centered on Western and Northern Europe. Germany remains the primary hub, housing approximately 3 million people of Turkish descent \u2014 the largest ethnic minority group in the country.<\/p>\n

During his speech, the president claimed the opposition is “disturbed” by the diaspora\u2019s success and its enduring ties to T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n

“The fact that our citizens abroad contribute to T\u00fcrkiye and strengthen their ties with their homeland disturbs certain circles,” Erdo\u011fan said. “They insult our brothers and sisters who work hard for 11 months of the year, saving every penny to return to their homeland in the summer.”<\/p>\n

He further characterized his political opponents as having an “arrogant mentality” that is “hostile” to various groups, including refugees and international students.<\/p>\n

“They are enemies of our expatriate brothers whose hearts burn with longing for their homeland,” he said. “They have no respect for anyone but themselves.”<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan pledged that his government would remain a protector of Turkish citizens regardless of where they reside.<\/p>\n

“We will not allow any of our people to be oppressed or mistreated, either inside or outside T\u00fcrkiye,” he said.<\/p>\n

The UID was founded in 2004 as the Union of European Turkish Democrats. It rebranded in 2018 to reflect its broader international scope in advocating for the social and political interests of the Turkish community abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan on Dec. 25 praised the Turkish diaspora as a vital pillar of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,1903,184,85,46,26719,56422,115022],"class_list":["post-205070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-diaspora","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-trkiye","tag-turkish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}