Highlights from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's statements are as follows:  We wholeheartedly thank and congratulate our working brothers and sisters here and everyone who contributed to this valuable organization. I also extend a warm welcome to each and every one of you, our valued guests, who have graciously accepted us and honored our table. May God perpetuate our unity, our love, and this unity of hearts. As you know, yesterday, we held the mass inauguration of 38 completed projects with our brothers and sisters from Rize. We also laid the foundations of our Nation's Garden mosque and our Ardeşen Quran course. I hope that all these projects, with a total investment value of approximately 3 billion 85 million lira, will once again be beneficial to Rize, our region, and our country. May God grant us, you, and all of us, the opportunity to bring many more investments and projects to this beautiful city, to serve our 81 provinces and 86 million citizens, along with Rize. We strive to make the most of almost every minute of our fast-paced visit to Rize. We strive to proudly raise the banner of our work and service in Rize with our ministries, municipalities, institutions, businesspeople, and civil society organizations. The projects we have inaugurated and laid the groundwork for are a testament to this. God willing, we will continue to work, produce, and strive for Rize with the same seriousness and determination.

On this occasion, I once again offer my condolences to my brothers and sisters who were victims of last month's flood disaster and reiterate that our state stands by them with all its resources. Esteemed guests, we are getting closer every day to our goals for the Turkish Century. With the breakthroughs we are making in every field, from education and transportation to foreign policy and trade, and from economy to technology, we are building a great and powerful Türkiye. Now, we have the reality of a Turkey that is self-confident and leads the world in many areas, especially in the defense industry, where its word carries weight. We must maintain this historic momentum and raise our bar for success even higher. We continue to see the positive results of the macro stability program we are implementing in the economy. While the conflicts in our region, the uncertainty in the global economy, and the escalating trade wars between major economies make our work challenging, we have no doubt that we will achieve our goals. With the medium-term program we announced last month, we shared our roadmap for the next three years with our inner circle and our nation. Our trips to the People's Republic of China and the US were particularly productive in economics, trade, and investment, among other areas.

'WE WILL REDUCE INFLATION TO SINGLE DIGITS'

There, we had the opportunity to witness firsthand the continued high appetite for investment in Türkiye. Hopefully, we will soon witness the positive impact of these developments. Our goal is to first bring inflation, which has been a headache for us, as it has for the rest of the world since the coronavirus pandemic, under control and then return it to a downward trend. By continuing this process with determination, we will reduce it to single-digit figures, thus ensuring that every segment of our nation can breathe easy. While continuing the disinflation process uninterrupted, we will also strengthen our policies focused on investment, employment, production, and exports. We are, of course, well aware of the expectations of our business community from our government. In parallel with the improvement in inflation, we will gradually take steps to meet these expectations. My dear brothers and sisters, we are as aware of this truth as you are: the solidarity between the private sector and the public sector plays a crucial role in the many achievements Türkiye has achieved over the last 23 years. We have paved the way for you, our hard-working, visionary business people, by leading you in every field, removing obstacles, and supporting you. You, too, have made the most of the opportunities presented to you, injecting life and blood into the Turkish economy. Instead of the doomsayers who instilled pessimism in the nation by declaring"we're doomed" every time they opened their mouths, you believed in this country and this state. It's thanks to this solidarity between us that we've brought Türkiye countless successes together. For example, we've reached the $270 billion mark, having previously received $36 billion in exports, together with you.