Turkey Yearns to Assist Indonesia in Skirmish Against Terrorism

Liputan6.com, Jakarta World peace is the primary security goals of many nations with its utterance manifested in every nation’s foreign policy and commercially promoted by candidates of worldwide beauty pageant. Though verbally sound, endeavours for its attainment seem to have been lacking and hindered.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently making courtesy call to Jakarta as to show commitment in the strengthening of the two nations strategic partnership. In between his tight schedule, President Erdogan took the time to deliver a lecture on world peace at the National Defense Department.

He specifically highlighted world peace as goal of nations including Indonesia and Turkey and how such goal is hindered by the presence of world security issues.

Among many that are collectively felt, experienced and addressed, radicalism and terrorism seem to have earned the number one position as the most worrying worldwide security issue for the time being and probably for quite some time especially in the absence of clear strategy on its eradication.

President Erdogan explained how the attainment of world peace has been acting as the diplomatic instrument that brought the two countries closer to one another.

He personally believes that such attainment only possible when radicalism, extremism and terrorism are all collectively contained. He then showed interest of establishing cooperation on this particular aspect to address its issue together.

“Indonesia is currently fighting against terrorism. We, Turkey would like to be part of the skirmish and work together with Indonesia to help eradicate these terrorists,” President Erdogan lectured, Friday (31/7/2015).

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was immediately given a warm welcome by the Indonesian government following his embarkation into the nation. (Akp/Rie)