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T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> has taken all precautions to not be negatively affected by the ongoing war between the United States and Iran, President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan<\/a> has said, stressing that the country has sufficient fertilizers and other food<\/a> products.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile on the one hand, through balanced diplomacy, we managed to protect our country from the ring of fire in our region, we on the other hand succeeded to maintain food security for our 86 million citizens,\u201d Erdo\u011fan said in a statement on the occasion of World Farmers\u2019 Day on May 12 in the Turkish capital.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been on alert from the first day [of the war] to ensure that the conflicts that have deeply shaken Iran and our brotherly countries in the Gulf do not affect our agricultural production,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n The war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has created food security problems in many countries, as the key waterway is one of the main transit routes for the supply of fertilizers in the world.<\/p>\n The conflicts, along with climate change and water scarcity, have once again revealed the importance of food security while concepts like \u201cfood nationalism\u201d are becoming more pronounced in the world, Erdo\u011fan suggested.<\/p>\n \u201cWe, as T\u00fcrkiye, have already taken our precautions to this end. We made our plans in line with the motto of \u2018Whoever holds the key to the warehouse holds the power,\u2019\u201d he stated, explaining that T\u00fcrkiye had already supplied enough fertilizers.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have no problems with agricultural production and food supply security,\u201d he said, adding T\u00fcrkiye ranks third in the production of vegetables and fourth in the production of fruit.<\/p>\n Erdo\u011fan also underlined the importance of rural development as the basis of T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s development policies, stressing that the government is prioritizing the involvement of more youngsters and women in agriculture.<\/p>\n The government\u2019s efforts to keep T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s food security unaffected from global warming and geopolitical crises will continue onward, Erdo\u011fan stated, informing about the launch of a new agricultural investment plan.<\/p>\n \u201cIn this new stage, we will plan our agricultural investments,\u201d he said, saying this new mechanism will create better conditions for the farmers in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n His remarks came after the head of a U.N. task force warned that tens of millions of people could face hunger and starvation if fertilizers are not soon allowed through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a few weeks ahead of us to prevent what will likely be a massive humanitarian crisis,\u201d Jorge Moreira da Silva, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and leader of the task force, told AFP in an interview in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANKARA T\u00fcrkiye has taken all precautions to not be negatively affected by the ongoing war between the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16467],"tags":[7241,7742,33498,7098,16264],"class_list":{"0":"post-68568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recep-tayyip-erdogan","8":"tag-erdogan","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-problem","11":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","12":"tag-trkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116564499030436378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}