Traveling for five days in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is meeting foreign investors and businessmen to try to get the Turkish economy out of the current crisis, received the American entrepreneur of South African origin Elon Musk.
The Turkish press extensively reported the meeting, to which the richest man in the world went in the company of his youngest son, who goes by the name of X Æ A-12 and who was offered a ball by the Turkish leader, applauds the far-right daily Türkiye.
The cordial visit of the new Twitter boss (renamed X) is interpreted as a new sign of the closeness between the two men, who call each other often and saw each other in person last year during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, recalls daily life online Medyascope.
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Last May, during the Turkish presidential election, the boss of X agreed to block certain content disapproved by the authorities, creating a scandal and multiple criticisms, remind her BBC. “We know that Erdogan and Musk have a good relationship, and announcements of upcoming cooperation would not be a surprise,” says a daily editorialist Sabah, which accompanies the presidential visit.
“You should create your next Tesla factory in Türkiye”, the Turkish president called him, trying to convince the controversial businessman to build his seventh electric car factory in the country (there already exist in the United States, Germany and China), reports the daily Liberty.
The two men also discussed a possible deployment in Turkey of Starlink, the satellite internet provider of Musk’s company SpaceX, the newspaper reported.
Finally, the Turkish head of state took the opportunity to invite the businessman to go with his family to Teknofest in Izmir at the end of September, an aviation show open to the public which is held several times a year in Turkey. This show is an opportunity to deploy armed drones, flagships of the Turkish defense industry, built by Erdogan’s son-in-law, Selçuk Bayraktar.
2023-09-18 15:10:29
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