Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that the steadfastness of his people is the necessary guarantee against attacks on the economy of Turkey, and took the opportunity to commemorate the victory of the Turks over the Byzantines, stressing that no one can prevent Turkey from achieving its distant goals.
On the anniversary of the Battle of Malakird, which occurred 947 years ago and the victory of the Seljuk Turks over the Byzantine Empire, Erdogan said that "the victory of Mladkird" the status of the ancestors through which the foundation of a civilization represented justice and mercy and peace, stressing that the Turkish people have held this land since then despite all the attacks It was thanks to the spirit of that battle.
"The Turkish Republic is the product of epic resistance against the world's most powerful countries. It is based on solid foundations and has been established with the victory of Malakirid," he said in a statement, stressing the importance of the independence of the Turkish people in order to deal with attacks on the Turkish economy.
He also said that no one could prevent Turkey from achieving its long-term goals as long as the spirit that helped win the "victory of Mladkird" is what drives the people to defend each other despite differences.
It should be noted that the Battle of Malakherd - which occurred in 1071 in the state of Mosh, eastern Turkey today - was the starting point for the defeat of the Byzantine Empire, where the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan defeated a Byzantine army of about 200 thousand soldiers by about twenty thousand Muslim soldiers only, The Roman Emperor Romanos Deganos was captured by Muslims.
After the victory, the Muslims began to spread in Asia Minor, now known as Turkey, as a prelude to the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, which opened in 1453 Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantines and called it Islambol, the House of Islam .