President Erdoğan: We are going through a painful period

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks at the TRT World Forum 2026 event at the Istanbul Congress Center.

The highlights of President Erdoğan's statements are as follows:

"TRT has been continuing its path steadily for 62 years without breaking its line with its principled and responsible understanding. TRT's voice reaches all corners of the world with its accurate and impartial journalism policy and decent and quality productions.

We are going through a painful period in which power competition is becoming increasingly harsh, rules are being ignored, and values are almost falling into landslide. We are experiencing a structural crisis in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born. It is our common responsibility to end this crisis with a just and equitable solution.

Now the whole world sees this truth. Today's problems cannot be solved with yesterday's prescriptions. It seems that the system is on the verge of bankruptcy. "Tens of millions of people are trying to hold on to life in the grip of wars, conflicts, hunger and poverty."