Turkey to protect its citizens from rising global energy prices: Erdoğan
"We're making every kind of sacrifice to protect our own citizens at a time when energy prices have increased between two and fivefold all over the world, especially in Europe," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stressed in his address to AK Party's provincial heads in the capital Ankara on Thursday.
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- Anadolu Agency
- Published Date: 03:10 | 07 October 2021
- Modified Date: 03:38 | 07 October 2021
Turkey is striving to protect its citizens amid rising energy prices across the world, the country's president said on Thursday.
"We're making every kind of sacrifice to protect our own citizens at a time when energy prices have increased between two and five fold all over the world, especially in Europe," Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said at the extended provincial congress of his Justice and Development (AK) Party in the capital Ankara.
Erdoğan underlined that since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Turkey has kept energy prices that are under state control at the lowest possible level, subsidizing them if necessary, and has continued to do so.
The president noted that Ankara was also working to conclude international contracts that would affect energy prices in a way that would benefit the country the most.
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