President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated that the Qatar crisis needed to come to a peaceful and diplomatic solution on Saturday.
“We hope that this issue will be resolved by Eid al-Fitr [festival of breaking the fast]. Turkey will continue to be the second home of all our brothers in the Gulf,” said Erdoğan.
“We have said clearly that the accusations against Qatar are not true, and that our brothers in the Gulf should be in strong solidarity.”
Turkey is working to resolve the Qatar crisis through diplomacy. Turkish government officials have been pushing for a peaceful solution to the Qatar row.
The president also commented on Turkey’s continual economic growth.
“Our government has taken very important measures to support the economy, and we will continue to take further steps,” Erdoğan said.
“High interest rates back investors into a corner, and production and employment opportunities are halted. We are determined to achieve a result, we will succeed,” he continued.
Turkey's economy grew five percent in the first quarter of 2017 when compared to the same period last year.
He went on to address unemployment rates, which rose 1.6 percentage points in March compared to the same month of last year but fell 0.9 percentage points from the previous month.
“It is important that unemployment rates drop to single figure digits. It is slowly declining. Employment growth will continue, I'm sure we will see single-digit figures in unemployment,” said Erdoğan.
The government is currently working on a new employment campaign to boost youth employment.
