ISTANBUL
The Developing-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation has congratulated The Anadolu Agency on its 95th anniversary.
“I have the pleasure of expressing my most sincere congratulations on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the establishment of Anadolu Agency,” Dr. Seyed Ali Mohammad Mousavi, D-8 secretary-general, said in a press release Monday.
Mousavi said the agency, which is the oldest among the member countries’, would contribute “strongly and positively” to the organization.
Established in 1997, the D-8 is a multilateral grouping of emerging economies of the Muslim world, including Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey.
The Iranian secretary-general said he looks forward to "further strengthening and expanding cooperation” with the agency.
Having been founded on April 6, 1920, 17 days before the Turkish Grand National Assembly convened for the first time, The Anadolu Agency helped announce the first legislation by the assembly that established the modern Turkish republic.
The Anadolu Agency witnessed all stages of the National Struggle, the War of Liberation and reforms of the republic.
