Known as a reliable, cheap airline, but safe is Pegasus Airlines. After a recent incident in Istanbul where a Pegasus jet slid off the runway, an evacuation after a burning tire was a second incident within one month. This time in Duesseldorf, Germany.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled Turkey’s new all-electric indigenous automobile in a ceremony held at the IT Valley in Gebze on December 27, 2019.

TurkStream, Turkey’s natural gas pipeline project transporting Russian natural gas to Europe via Turkey launched on January 8, 2020, with the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Also attending the ceremony were President Vladimir Putin of Russia, President Aleksandar Vučić of Serbia, and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov of Bulgaria.

The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) was present at the 13th edition of the Travel Turkey Izmir Tourism Fair, one of the most significant tourism fairs in Turkey, Fuarizmir, on November 5, 2019.

The first Europe-bound ex-China freight train traveling via Turkey’s Middle Corridor continued its historic journey after a stop at the Turkish capital of Ankara in the first week of November.

The round table “Göbeklitepe: Understanding the past with a look towards the future” was held at the Yunus Emre Institute – Turkish Cultural Center in Rome, Italy.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently inaugurated the new mega-highway project linking Istanbul and Izmir, which by population are respectively Turkey’s largest and third largest cities. He also was able to mark the opening of Bursa City Hospital, the 10th hospital in a series of 31 throughout Turkey.

DP World Yarimca, one of Turkey’s largest container terminals, joined the main international rail network and now serves as a link between China and Europe. Having started operations in Turkey’s İzmit Bay in 2015, DP World Yarımca is now connected to the country’s railway network, enabling the terminal to integrate with anywhere that is within the reach of Turkey as well as the Caspian Sea and China via the Kars-Tbilisi-Baku Railway.

Turkey held the second wind power plant tender as part of its Renewable Energy Resource Zones (YEKA) project. The total 1 GW tender was split into 250 MW each across four provinces in Turkey—Aydın, Muğla, Balıkesir, and Çanakkale.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chaired the 6th meeting of the Reform Action Group held on May 9, 2019, under the coordination of Directorate for EU Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Treasury and Finance, and Ministry of Interior.