Yazicioglu: "Turkey will be a global actor"

State Minister Said Yazicioglu yesterday attended a congress in Istanbul held by the Turkish-Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM). The meeting focused on Turkey's strategic vision for the 2023 centenary of the Turkish Republic to become a global and regional power. Addressing the congress, attended by strategic analysts and former diplomats, Yazicioglu said, "In the centenary of the republic, thanks to its cultural and historical legacy, Turkey should be a power which helps to broker solutions to regional issues, as a democratic and technology-producing global actor with its well-educated young population and high standards of living in an increasingly unstable region."