Important statements from President Erdoğan
Quick Look
In his speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026-2027 academic year, President Erdoğan congratulated the scientists and repeated his messages of solidarity for children in Gaza.
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Why It Matters
President Erdoğan met with university administrators and academics at the opening ceremony of the 2026-2027 academic year.
Highlights from President Erdoğan's speech at the ceremony were as follows:
Dear administrators of YÖK and our universities, valuable academicians, ladies and gentlemen, I greet you with my most heartfelt feelings. I am very pleased to host you in the home of the nation at the opening ceremony of the 2026-2027 academic year. Welcome to this veteran venue.
I hope that the new academic year will be beneficial. I would like to congratulate the scientists to whom we will present the Supreme Academy Award. This composition, dedicated to the children of Gaza by the choir of Harran University, impressed us greatly and took us to a different spiritual climate. I convey my strongest messages of solidarity to all Gaza students and the victims and oppressed all over the world. Even if the barbarians wearing the mask of civilization forget, we will not forget the children on the other side of the Euphrates. I pray to God to have abundant mercy on our martyrs in the occupied Palestinian lands.
