Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Tatarstan and Turkish people have common hearts and they are beating in unison
17 March 2011, Thursday
Within the limits of working visit to Russia Prime Minister of Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Kazan Federal University and met with students and teachers. R. Erdogan was accompanied by RT President Rustam Minnikhanov.
Acquaintance with Kazan Federal University started from university museum. World atlas in Turkish published in Erzurum in 1802 attracted attention of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Also guests visited auditorium # 7 where V. Lenin studied, and got acquainted with brief presentation of World summer Universide-2013. Prime Minister of Turkey left notes in the book of honorable guests of the university.
R. Erdogan believes that such major visit of Turkish delegation to Kazan contributes to development of relations between Turkey and Russia, particularly Tatarstan.
Prime Minister of Turkish Republic noted with pleasure that there are departments of Oriental studies and study of Turkic languages at Kazan University.
“Turkish and Tatarstan people are united by single culture and religion. We have common hearts and they’re beating in unison”, - Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. He also informed that 2011 was announced the year of Gabdulla Tukai in Turkey. Turkish PM believes that this event would strengthen relations between Tatarstan and Turkey.
In opinion of R. Erdogan one more factor of good relations between Tatarstan and Turkey is economic ties. He noted that Russia and Turkey are aimed at reaching annual foreign-trade turnover of 100 bln. US dollars by 2015.
Turkish PM congratulated Tatarstan sportsmen on successful results at winter Universiade in Erzurum that had finished before.
Speaking about Turkish Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed that for the last 8 years Turkey found itself in new period of economic development. The country plans to be among 10 major economics of the world. In political sphere authorities are moving towards democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked students and teachers of Kazan Federal University for warm welcome and wished good luck.
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On 28 January Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in an extended joint meeting of the Main Directorate of Russian Emergencies Ministry for Tatarstan and a collegium of the Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergency Management and Natural Disaster Response of the republic which summarized results of work of the territorial subsystem of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations of the republic in 2025 and set tasks for 2026.
In his keyword report the Head of the Main Directorate Irek Kadamov informed that there were 3 758 man-caused fires in the republic which killed 128 people and injured 177. Through joint efforts, we have managed to reduce the number of man-caused fires by more than 10%, the number of injured by 12 per cent, however the number of killed increased by 13 people, he said.
On 28 January at a ceremony held as a part of a meeting summarizing results of work of the territorial subsystem of the unified state system for the prevention and elimination of emergency situations of the republic in 2025 and setting tasks for 2026, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and the Head of the Main Directorate of Russian Emergencies Ministry for Tatarstan Irek Kadamov handed in keys for 24 new fire and rescue vehicles purchased at the expense of the regional budget to units of the Directorate and Tatarstan Emergencies Ministry.
On 27 January, speaking at an extended meeting of the Tatarstan Prosecutor’s Office which summarized results of work of the Office for 2025 and set tasks for strengthening law and order in 2026 and which was held with participation of Russian Deputy General Prosecutor Nikoly Shishkin and the Chief Federal Inspector for the republic Viktor Demidov, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin thanked employees of the Office for good work and high professionalism.