President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered remarks at a press conference following the Presidential Cabinet Meeting at the Presidential Complex. “We have achieved the greatest progress in democracy and development in Türkiye’s history. By prioritizing investment, employment and production, we have developed and strengthened Türkiye. Now, there is a Türkiye that has grown by an average of 5.5 percent every year, raising its national income from $238 billion to $1 trillion, its exports from $35 billion to $254 billion, and its employment from 19 million to 32 million people. We achieved all this even though our population grew from 66 million to 86 million, not to mention the many other challenges we faced, from tutelage to terrorism, from coups to political, social and economic traps,” President Erdoğan said. “Moreover, we have not only addressed the fundamental shortcomings in development and democracy, accumulated over the previous years, but we have also built an infrastructure that will increase the welfare of all of our citizens in all areas from education to health, security to justice, transportation to energy, agriculture to industry, housing to environment, with an additional population of 20 million,” President Erdoğan said. “WE ENSURED SECURITY IN EVERY AREA FROM TERRORISM TO PUBLIC ORDER” “We made education accessible to all our children at every stage from pre-school to university. In healthcare, we have built a service system that is unique in the world. We ensured security in every area from terrorism to public order. We freed the judiciary from the abuse of both the tutelage and terrorist organizations such as FETÖ and turned it into an institution working on behalf of the Turkish nation,” President Erdoğan noted. “In transportation, while connecting our cities with divided roads, highways and railway networks, we reduced the number of people per vehicle from 14 to 6, ensuring that these roads can be used efficiently. By completing the construction of nearly 11 million new houses, we both made our citizens homeowners and prepared for earthquakes,” President Erdoğan said.