Republic Day is our holiday celebrated every year on October 29 in memory of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey declaring the Republic administration on October 29, 1923.
It began to be celebrated as a national holiday with a law enacted in 1925.
It has been exactly 102 years.
Why is this holiday important to us?
Let me try to explain without resorting to clichés.
We are a country and a nation that is the continuation of a great empire, even if it is currently silent.
Although our race faced the danger of extinction due to mistakes made, we managed to recover.
We will be even better.
100 years ago, the Turkish people, who were dying of malaria due to swamp mosquitoes, starving, and pulling plows with their own strength instead of oxen while living in makeshift shacks made of dried dung, now possess an economy within the G20 thanks to the Republic.
The volume of international contracting has exceeded 500 billion dollars in the last 50 years.
It first began with the famous Sezai Türkeş Fevzi Akkaya (STFA) with the port construction in the Misrata province of Libya.
Then, with ENKA, brother Şarık Tara brought to life massive projects that were hard to believe.
He successfully completed billion-dollar highway projects in the Balkans.
Nurol Construction and the Çarmıklı family built military facilities in the former Soviet Union.
İdris Yamantürk, the owner of Güriş Construction, strengthened transportation infrastructure with metro constructions.
Turkish engineer-contractors also built the Warsaw metro and the Stockholm metro.
Cevahir Construction in Libya and Macedonia.
With Yapı Merkezi, Ersin Arıoğlu undertook serious infrastructure and railway projects in the Arab geography.
Then, with TAV Construction, Sani Şener both built and operated more than two dozen airports both domestically and abroad.
He did these billion-dollar airport projects by finding the financing himself.
And now
He will build the Damascus Airport.
These projects, built entirely by Turkish engineers, were realized by a nation that was on the verge of extinction a hundred years ago.
Thanks to the Republic, the path for free enterprise was opened, schools reached the most remote corners, and the literacy rate reached nearly one hundred percent.
It subsequently gave birth to engineer-contractors who set the standard in the construction market worldwide.
Long live the Republic, Long live Kemal Pasha
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