Announcing foreign trade figures for 2022, Erdoğan said: “The Covid-19 pandemic, disruptions in global supply chains, the Russia-Ukraine war, and troubles such as raw material and energy crises, which all have deeply affected the entire world, couldn’t slow down our economy and exports. On the contrary, we have reached the highest growth rates and export figures in our history by turning these crises into an opportunity.”

Beginning his speech by expressing his wish for 2023, which also encompasses the centenary joy of the Republic and the goals symbolized by this date, to be auspicious for the whole humanity, Erdoğan said: “I hope that this first year of the Century of Türkiye vision becomes a year when our country has important achievements and breaks records in every area, particularly in exports.”

“Türkiye has broadened its horizon beyond its region to a global level”

“We are starting the first working day of the new century of our Republic with exports and our family of exporters,” the President said. “As is known, we have worked very hard over the past two decades in accordance with the goal which Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, while founding our Republic, specified as elevating our country even above the contemporary civilizations. With the democracy and development initiatives we have launched, we have both redressed the shortcomings, deficiencies and mistakes of the past and founded the infrastructure of the future.”

Stressing that Türkiye is now well aware of the strategic importance and means at its disposal, Erdoğan said: “Türkiye is now highly self-confident in political and economic terms. Türkiye has now broadened its horizon beyond its region to a global level. Türkiye is now capable of developing, implementing and finalizing its own policies in every area without imitating or depending on anyone. Such a picture of Türkiye is visible in every area including education, healthcare, security, transportation, industry, agriculture, sports, environment and social aid.”

“Türkiye grew by 6.2 percent in the first three quarters of 2022”

Export is one of the realms in which we have obtained the most visible outcomes in the path we have set out on with big dreams in economy as well, Erdoğan noted. “The Covid-19 pandemic, disruptions in global supply chains, the Russia-Ukraine war, and troubles such as raw material and energy crises, which all have deeply affected the entire world, couldn’t slow down our economy and exports. On the contrary, we have reached the highest growth rates and export figures in our history by turning these crises into an opportunity. We achieved the highest level of the past half century with an 11.4 percent growth rate in 2021 alone.”

Stressing that the exports alone made a 5.3 percentage point contribution to this historic growth rate, Erdoğan stated: “Our country’s share from global exports has exceeded one percent for the first time. We maintained our stable growth last year as well. At a time when the world, including developed countries, were struggling in deep agony, we grew by 6.2 percent in the first three quarters of 2022.”

“We had 254.2 billion dollars’ worth of exports in 2022”

Erdoğan said: “We have all followed step by step how our exports have reached its current point breaking records after records. I would like to announce with great pride that we had 254.2 billion dollars’ worth of exports in 2022, up 12.9% year-on-year. This is a record-high figure in our Republican history. I hope this export figure may be auspicious for our country, nation and economy.”. (ILKHA)