"Press Conference with The Turkish Prime Minister
27 July 2005
Tony Blair has held talks with the Turkish Prime Minister in Downing Street.
Read the transcript below:
Prime Minister:
Good Morning everyone, and a very warm and friendly welcome to the Turkish Prime Minister, who is a good friend and colleague of mine, and we have had a very good and constructive discussion this morning. We began obviously by talking about terrorism. I want to thank Turkey and the Turkish people for their kind expressions of condolence in respect of the attacks that took place in London, and I expressed my condolences to the Prime Minister in respect of the attacks that have taken place in Turkey. We are both, I am afraid, too familiar with terrorism and its nature and we both agreed about how important it is that we work together to overcome this mutual threat and that we do not allow the terrorists to divide us, by nation, or by race, or by religion, and we stand together in that fight."
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