A prelude to sucking up to India?
Erdogan:
The backbone of our foreign policy is the Türkiye axis. Turkey's national interests, security sensitivities, economic and commercial interests are our most basic priorities.
In this context, we believe that we have serious cooperation potential with the countries in the BRICS platform.
We are not changing sides; on the contrary, we are trying to take our rightful place in the changing global system with a Türkiye-centered approach.
This perspective lies behind our efforts to advance our relations with multinational cooperation platforms at different levels.
Covering 30% of the world's surface area and 45% of its population…
40% of global oil production, 25% of goods exports, 2/5 of trade...
Becoming a center of economic attraction on a global scale…
We believe that advancing our relations with BRICS, which offers significant opportunities for our country, which aims to become one of the world's top 10 economies, will be beneficial for Turkey in every respect.
Our country's developing relations with BRICS are not and can never be an alternative to our current engagements.
Turkey takes its place on all these platforms as a NATO ally and a country negotiating full membership in the European Union.
As a nation, we will continue our march towards the future on the same line we have been advancing on for thousands of years, today and tomorrow.
Erdogan:
The backbone of our foreign policy is the Türkiye axis. Turkey's national interests, security sensitivities, economic and commercial interests are our most basic priorities.
In this context, we believe that we have serious cooperation potential with the countries in the BRICS platform.
We are not changing sides; on the contrary, we are trying to take our rightful place in the changing global system with a Türkiye-centered approach.
This perspective lies behind our efforts to advance our relations with multinational cooperation platforms at different levels.
Covering 30% of the world's surface area and 45% of its population…
40% of global oil production, 25% of goods exports, 2/5 of trade...
Becoming a center of economic attraction on a global scale…
We believe that advancing our relations with BRICS, which offers significant opportunities for our country, which aims to become one of the world's top 10 economies, will be beneficial for Turkey in every respect.
Our country's developing relations with BRICS are not and can never be an alternative to our current engagements.
Turkey takes its place on all these platforms as a NATO ally and a country negotiating full membership in the European Union.
As a nation, we will continue our march towards the future on the same line we have been advancing on for thousands of years, today and tomorrow.