Indonesia really understands ways to counter terrorism: Erdogan
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) was greeted with a state ceremony at the Turkey's White Palace, locally known as the Beyaz Saray, by the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Indonesia really understand the ways to counter terrorism.
"Indonesia is a country which really understand how to face terrorism," said him in a press conference after bilateral meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at White Palace, Ankara, on Thursday (July 6).
Turkey expected to improve the bilateral cooperation with Indonesia as the country had faced big challenges on terrorism and radicalism. Erdogan asserted that all kinds of terrorism should be fight.
"The organizations like ISIS and Fethullah Gullen misuses their needs and we will always fight them," he said.
He said ISIS committed to make chaos. In Turkey, the government did not differentiate any terrorist groups. All the terrorist would be totally fought. Recently, the country had precede 5.000 alleged terrorists, some came from South East Asia and some from others.
Erdogan added that some alleged terrorists in Syria expected to go back to their country. Turkey had win the fight over 3.000 ISIS members.
"We committed to fight the terroris, we come to the era of warning," he said.
Erdogan also emphasized the importance of exchanging secret information between intelligence agency. "On this occasion I wanted to say thanks to you to our brothers in Indonesia, including for fighting ISIS and Fethullah Gullen. I hope the group would be expelled from both from both country by the good bilateral cooperation," he said.
Jokowi, Erdogan agree on intelligent data exchange
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo (left) shake hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at White Palace, Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday, (July 6).
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ANKARA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to cooperate in the exchange of intelligence information in an effort to combat and counter terrorism.
President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said in a joint press statement after a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Ankara's White Palace on Thursday "regarding the eradication of terrorism, Indonesia and Turkey have agreed to increase cooperation, especially related to Foreign Terrorist Fighters through cooperation in the field of intelligence information."
To that end, the two countries agreed to build an information technology system of intelligence that will allow the two countries to cooperate in order to eradicate terrorism.
"The development of IT System in intelligence will make the works easier in order to eradicate terrorism," he said.
Meanwhile, President Erdogan stated that terrorism is no longer a local issue or involves one party alone.
"It has implications that need global cooperation to deal with. We have discussed with the President on defense and terrorism. We are exchanging opinions, and we have agreed to take important steps for the good of both countries," Erdogan said.
On the same occasion, a joint memorandum of understanding on heatlh cooperation between the Governments of Indonesia and Turkey was also signed in addition to the lsunch of Indonesia-Turkey Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IT-CEPA) negotiations.
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