Tonight we celebrate more than 76 years of achievement; we celebrate the fulfillment of the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob thousands of years ago.

Promises that survived the Babylonian exile, the Islamic caliphates and the Nazi genocide.

The Zionist dream has become reality.

— When a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials crashed in the country’s northwest, killing all aboard, Turkish Bayraktar AKINCI UAV entered Iranian airspace amid poor weather conditions to aid the search and rescue mission.

— Turkish media gave wall-to-wall coverage of the UAV’s mission, AKINCI located the crash site and passed on “critical information” to Tehran.

— And also, officials from the United States and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council countries met in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, on Wednesday.

— At these meetings, the U.S. aims to promote its objective of building a regional missile shield.

— If successful, the initiative will undoubtedly pave the way for even more lucrative American and Western arms sales to the region.

Bayraktar drones have made miracles for us.

And they are not coming from the U.S. or from France.

We bought them from Türkiye.

“Only crazy people like Putin are capable of killing and terrorizing people so vilely,” he said.

If Ukraine had enough air defense and aircraft, such strikes would simply be impossible.