In the work written by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the effects of new communication technologies on the family structure are discussed from a comprehensive perspective and the importance of intra-family communication is also emphasized.

The book, which consists of sections “Being a Child in the Age of New Communication Technologies”, “Parenting Roles Changing with the Development of New Communication Technologies” and “Services Offered by Public Institutions and Organizations on New Communication Technologies and Digital Parenting”, guides families in consciously benefiting from the opportunities offered by technology and acting consciously against the risks of the digital world, and is an important guide.

In the study, which draws attention to the opportunities offered by new communication technologies as well as their risks and threats, many current issues from technology addiction to cyber bullying, from personal data breach to digital literacy are discussed with a family-centered approach.

In the work, which evaluates the steps to be taken to strengthen family communication and ties between family members, the effects of technological developments on family life and current problems that arise in this process are discussed.

“FAMILY IS THE STRONGEST SHELTER AND SAFE HARBOR”

In his introduction to the book, President Erdoğan stated that the family is the oldest and most powerful institution that transmits the values ​​of civilization from generation to generation, forms the basis of the social structure, and constitutes the essence and substance of society.

Stating that people first learn concepts and emotional values ​​about life in the family environment, Erdoğan emphasized that mercy, compassion and empathy are gained within the family.

Pointing out that the family, which ensures the transfer of love, respect and cultural values ​​from generation to generation, also has an important role in teaching national and spiritual values ​​to children, Erdoğan said, “For people, family is the strongest shelter and safest harbor where they feel safe.” he said.

Erdoğan stated that with the rapid development of technology in recent years, there have been significant changes and transformations in many areas of life, and the family has also been affected by these digital transformations.

Erdogan said:

“It is our common duty to protect our children and young people from harmful trends, thoughts that erode our values, and all kinds of mentalities that threaten our family and social structure. In such a period, we continue the ‘Year of the Family’, which we declared in 2025, with great determination and excitement, in order to further strengthen our family institution, strengthen the ties between our generations and reinforce our social solidarity.”

“STRONG INDIVIDUAL, STRONG FAMILY, STRONG SOCIETY”

Reminding that they have implemented many studies regarding the family in 2025, Erdoğan made the following evaluations:

“In order to develop family policies with a long-term, holistic and sustainable approach, we declared the period 2026-2035 as the 10 Years of Family and Population. In this context, we will continue to protect, strengthen and transfer the family institution to future generations by acting with the understanding of ‘strong individual, strong family, strong society’. We will realize our Turkey Century goals in cooperation with a strong society built on strong families.”

The “New Communication Technologies and Family” handbook can be accessed from the web address “https://yayinlar.iletisim.gov.tr/uploads/iletisim-teknolojileri-aile.pdf”.

Breaking news… CHP’s Ümit Dikbayır resigned from his party. Ümit Dikbayır announced the decision in a statement on his social media account.

Ümit Dikbayır stated the following in his resignation statement:

The reason for this decision is not the history, base or values ​​of the Republican People’s Party. My objection; Even though he occupied the highest positions in this party, he still cannot take the party out of the shadow of his personal calculations, resentments and political ambitions.

While Türkiye needs tranquility, reason and a sense of responsibility; I do not accept that the Republican People’s Party has become a tool for one person’s endless showdowns. The offices of the party founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk cannot be the scene of personal prosperity and rematches of the past. I do not find it right that a party that is supposed to be a hope for Türkiye should be dragged into polarization, purges and political intrigues for the sake of the personal settlement of a person who has been appointed to office.

My objection is not to the Republican People’s Party; It belongs to those who turn the legacy of the Republic into a means of maintaining their own political existence. For this reason, I resign from the membership of the Republican People’s Party.

Türkiye’s rise in the defense industry has reached remarkable levels. Defense Industry President Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün announced that Türkiye’s defense industry exports, which were made in a year 20 years ago, are now realized in a week. Görgün said, “We export 240 million dollars in a week and approximately 1 billion dollars in defense industry per month.” Speaking at the Future AI Summit 26 hosted by Bahçeşehir University, Görgün emphasized that the transformation experienced in the defense industry in recent years is not limited only to production capacity, but the power of technology development has also increased significantly.

GIANT LEAP IN 20 YEARS
Saying that Türkiye has made a great breakthrough in the field of defense industry in the last 20 years, Görgün stated that the increase in export figures is the most concrete indicator of this. Stating that Türkiye has become a manufacturer that not only meets its own needs but also has a say in the global market, Görgün pointed out the success especially in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles. Emphasizing that it is of strategic importance for Türkiye to produce UAVs and UCAVs, which dominate 65 percent of the world market in their class, Görgün said that behind this success are strong human resources and technology investments.

CRITICAL CALL TO YOUTH
Pointing out that the role of young people is critical in the success of the defense industry, Görgün said that the average age of employees in the sector is quite young. Stating that the average age has dropped to 28 in some technology companies, Görgün emphasized that young people should be at the center of production processes in order for Türkiye to remain strong in the technology race. Addressing young people, Görgün called on them to “Be engineers of technology, not spectators.”

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS CHANGING THE BALANCES
Touching on the transformative effect of artificial intelligence in the defense industry at the summit, Görgün said that this technology stands at a different point from other technological leaps in human history. Görgün said, “For the first time, a technology is trying to be added to our minds. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a tool; it is a strategic power that transforms mind, production and decision mechanisms.”

130 SPEAKERS PARTICIPATED
At Future AI Summit 26, organized this year with the theme of “Redesigning Intelligence”, the impact of artificial intelligence in many areas from education to defense, from health to entrepreneurship is discussed. At the summit, 130 speakers discuss the present and future of artificial intelligence on three different stages. The event will continue today with different sessions and panels.

“ALLY for Future: Young Muslim Women Leadership Program” started in Ankara. Delivering a speech titled “Women Making a Difference: Examples of Leadership in the Struggle for Human Rights” at the event held at the hotel in the capital, ALLY for Future Founder and President of the Women’s Advisory Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Dr. Esra Albayrak said that young women from 25 countries came to the program and that they met for the 3rd time in the women’s leadership program, which they laid the foundations of with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Women’s Advisory Council, which they worked to establish 10 years ago.
Albayrak showed the participants the images of a doctor and nurse performing surgery with a phone light, an engineer trying to bring clean water with limited resources, and a mother trying to maintain her child’s routine in a war environment. Pointing out that women who lead society in the world’s most difficult conditions are almost never seen in the world’s dominant leadership narrative, he asked: “Why don’t we see women in this dominant narrative?” Emphasizing that they had to ask the question, Albayrak said that the answer dates back to the founding of the modern world. Emphasizing that their languages, colors and cultures may seem different, but they look at the horizon with the same faith and shoulder the burden of the same age together, Albayrak said:
“On the one hand, we, women, bear the weight of wars, migrations, and rising Islamophobia the most, as in every period of history. On the other hand, we are struggling to express ourselves within a map drawn by someone else’s definitions. I see many young women among you who feel the weight of these burdens intensely on their shoulders. Dear young friends, remember that that burden is your only opportunity. That burden is your treasure, not the one that oppresses you, but the one that lifts you up, makes you walk tall, and creates the steel will to stand against the unfair world. It is the treasure of history. When you look at those who change their direction, you see those who have the courage to lift the burden on their shoulders, that is, those who have a problem, those who have a problem that will get them out of bed early every morning. We may not all have to pay the same price, but we must have a cause, a problem for which we are willing to risk death.

BECAUSE HE IS HUMAN…
Underlining that he was not talking about artificial problems imported from the agendas of other centers, Albayrak said, “I am talking about the cause of establishing our own story, constructing our own narrative, and making an understanding that sees humans as valuable just because they are human, dominant in the world.”
Albayrak said, “This problem is much more critical in our current period because we are currently standing on two great thresholds of history.”
“We talk about the troubles, but we witness that the same troubles create an opportunity. On one side, Gaza… It clearly shows us the moral bankruptcy of the established global order and so-called universal values. That map we have been talking about from the beginning is literally crumbling before our eyes. This is a historical threshold. On the other hand, it is a beginning that has not yet been written. Artificial intelligence is the technocolonial order that we see can be rebuilt with artificial intelligence. Humanity is in the beginning days of perhaps the greatest transformation since the printing press. This transformation is either the existing unjust system or the beginning of it.” “The old map is collapsing, the new map has not been drawn yet, the moral codes have not been written yet, but we may have the opportunity to be at the table of the new order. We, as young people, must be candidates for this.”
Albayrak thanked the Ministry of Family and Social Services for bringing them together in the program, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the representatives of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and other institutions for their support.

THE MOST PRIMARY SUBJECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT MARCH
In his opening speech, Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş said, “Women, who were once excluded from university gates, public institutions and working life due to their beliefs and clothes, have today become the most essential subjects of Türkiye’s development march.” Göktaş noted the following: – The rate of female university students, which was 14 percent in 2002, will be 53 percent in 2025.
– The rate of female lecturers, which was 36 percent in 2002, is 53 percent today.
– Women’s representation in the Turkish Grand National Assembly increased to 19.8 percent.
– 40 percent of judges and prosecutors are women.

AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik said, “Our presidential candidate is President Erdoğan.” AK Party Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) convened yesterday under the chairmanship of President Erdoğan. Making evaluations about the meeting, Çelik answered journalists’ questions. Çelik used the following expressions for MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli’s statement ‘rejecting early elections’: “We welcome Mr. Bahçeli’s statements. His statements reiterated that the candidacy of our President is the common will of the People’s Alliance and our unity and solidarity. It was a statement showing the consensus and determination on this issue. For our party, our Presidential candidate in the upcoming elections is our President Erdoğan.” He also made evaluations about the Terror-Free Türkiye process. Çelik emphasized that very important progress has been made in our country and that the Parliament report is extremely important. Çelik said: “At today’s point, it is important that the report stands behind its content and its signature. It is the dissolution of the armed structure of the PKK and the KJK, with all its elements and extensions, and the end of its illegal structure. These illegal structures must be removed from Türkiye’s agenda. Today, we can clearly say that we are at a new stage. A legal framework will emerge to ensure the disarmament and the termination of the existence of the terrorist organization and its illegal structures in order to ensure that the requirements of the commission report are fulfilled. We believe that this legal framework will be put into Parliament as soon as possible.” “We think it should be considered on the agenda.” Pointing out that the legal framework stage has been reached where the terrorist organization will disappear and the armed structure will end, Çelik said, “It is important for all political parties and all circles to contribute to this legal framework. Turkey is capable of overcoming this issue with a common will, without making any compromises, and with the experience of the state.”

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke as follows at the AK Party Ankara Organization Meeting held at ATO Congresium:

WE WILL HOST WORLD LEADERS: While our political opponents are fighting for seats day and night, we, as the government and alliance, are struggling to prepare Türkiye for the future. Ankara will host important summits this year. NATO 36th Meeting of Heads of State and Government will be held on 7-8 July. We will host many leaders, including US President Donald Trump, on the occasion of the summit. In the autumn, our family council, the Organization of Turkish States Summit, will be held in Ankara again. This year, Ankara’s international visibility will increase more than ever and it will make a name for itself as the center of global diplomacy.

WE DID NOT TRY TO FIND NULL ARGUMENTS: As the AK Party, our understanding of politics is based on work and service. We are not among those who sweep problems under the rug, but rather work to solve them. We didn’t look for excuses, we didn’t take refuge in excuses, we didn’t try to find ridiculous arguments.

HE SEEN EVERYTHING WHICH HE HAD HAD A HAMMER AS A NAIL: But those who could not do politics with a vision and a project could not show the same skill in finding solutions to problems as they did in making excuses. You know, he saw everything that had a hammer in his hand as a nail. They have no words other than excuses and heroism. Because they do not have a plan or project that they can present to the nation. We all follow what they are dealing with; There are no days without fights and noise. They harm not only themselves but also the political establishment.

WE COULD NOT SOLVE THE OPPOSITION’S CHRONIC VISION PROBLEM: We solved many problems of our country during our rule, but we could not solve the opposition’s chronic vision problem. Unfortunately, we could not teach opposition actors who were accustomed to comfort how to work, develop projects and serve. We could not teach them to take a local and national stance on issues such as foreign policy, defense, the fight against tutelage and terrorism. Türkiye’s opposition gap, far from closing, is growing larger. Believe me, we feel sorry for our country when we see the deplorable state in which the political institution has fallen into the hands of those who love their seats and careers.

WE MADE THINGS CALLED DREAMS: No one thought that Türkiye could make big moves in such a short time in areas such as education, health, justice, security, transportation, economy, foreign policy and tourism. Very few people believed that our country could write a success story in the defense industry, of which Ankara is the locomotive. If we said that we would increase our exports from 36 billion dollars to 275 billion dollars, our tourism income from 12.4 billion dollars to 65 billion dollars, our defense exports from 248 million dollars to 11 billion dollars, and our national income from 236 billion dollars to 1.6 trillion dollars, we would be accused of dream mongering. If we said that we would make Türkiye first a regional power and then the quarterback of global politics, we would be accused of being a dreamer. We have undertaken a development move that was unimaginable and unimaginable 25 years ago.

WE EMBROIDED OUR NAME IN THE HEART OF OUR NATION: We turned dreams into goals, and goals into realities, one by one. With our radical reforms and silent revolutions, in the famous words of the late Özal, we brought Türkiye to a new era. With the support of Ankara, we had the pleasure of serving all of Türkiye and every individual of our beloved nation. While we raised the service standards in our country, we also raised the expectations of our citizens to higher levels. Thus, as the most successful team of our 103-year-old republic, we had our name engraved with glory and honor both in the hearts of our nation and in history.

WE WILL CELEBRATE OUR 25TH ANNIVERSARY WITH GREAT ENTHUSIASM

This year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the establishment of our party. We will celebrate our 25th anniversary with great enthusiasm in mid-August with a program worthy of us, our movement and our struggle. Ankara; He personally witnessed every stage of this party, from its fall into the hearts of the nation to its establishment, from its infancy to its coming to power. We founded the AK Party in Ankara. When we founded our party, almost no one thought that our country would make great progress in such a short time.

WE WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION WITH WHICH WE WILL COMPETE IN SERVICE

We do not find it right that Türkiye’s second largest party, whether it is our rival or the opposition, is associated with fights and tension. We are not faced with an opposition plagued by internal turmoil; We want to see an opposition with which we can compete in service, vision, work and ideas. Our search for an opposition that suits our quality and caliber continues today.

THE HEROIC ACTION OF JULY 15 WILL NOT BE ERATED FROM MEMORIES

The people of Ankara, whose ancestors rushed to Feth-i Mübin and defended their homeland in the War of Independence, defended the future of our nation on the night of July 15. We have not forgotten what happened that night in Kızılay, Social Complex, Parliament, Provincial Police Department, Gölbaşı, Kahramankazan and many other places. We have not forgotten the resistance of the brave men of Ankara who used their chests as a shield against bullets. We have not forgotten the sacrifice of our farmers from Ankara, who set their year’s harvest on fire for their country in one night. We have not forgotten the epic of our brothers who ran to the squares upon our call and prevented the coup with their bare hands. This aspect of Ankara does not change; This courage, this wisdom, this heroism of the people of Ankara will never be erased from our nation’s memory.