Turkish president arrives in Tianjin for SCO summit

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Sunday morning to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2025 scheduled for Sunday and Monday.

Türkiye is now a dialog partner of the SCO.

Both China and Türkiye are major developing countries and members of the Global South, sharing broad consensus on pursuing national development and revitalization, and upholding the norms in international relations.

China is currently Türkiye's second-largest trading partner, and its fastest-growing source of international tourists.

Founded in east China's Shanghai in 2001, the SCO has now evolved into a comprehensive regional organization encompassing nearly half of the world's population, a quarter of the global landmass and a quarter of global GDP. With the accession of India, Pakistan, Iran and Belarus, the SCO now has 10 member states, alongside two observer states and 14 dialogue partners.

The death toll in the war-torn Gaza Strip has risen to 71,455 since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on Oct 7, 2023, with the number of injuries reaching 171,347, Gaza's health authorities said on Friday.

In the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza received 14 more bodies, including 12 new deaths and two bodies recovered from the rubble, in addition to 18 new injuries as of 11:00 on Friday, the authorities said.

Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct 11, 2025, Israeli attacks have killed 463 people and wounded 1,269 others, according to the Gaza health authorities.