Planned a month ago, Obama’s Turkey trip has created a big sensation in Turkey. Obama’s polite and graceful attitudes showed his endeavours to change the view of United States for Turkey. It was Obama’s first visit to a country as the president of the United States as he stated. Obama is welcomed excitedly by the Turkish folk comparing to the any other previous presidents of the US.

Obama’s plane Air Force I arrived to Ankara Esenboga Airport on April 5th, Sunday night, and he went to hotel that night. On April 6th, Obama’s trip started formally. First of all, he visited Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who is the founder of modern Turkey; therefore, he is appreciated because of this trip since he showed his regard to the modern, secular Turkey and its founder. He left a note to guess notebook of Anitkabir concluding with Ataturk’s famous quote: “Peace in the world, peace in the country.” After that, he visited Abdullah Gul, the president of Turkey; furthermore, he went to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) to make a speech. This speech was the most important speech during his trip, and I watched it live.

After I came to Turkey from the trip to Portugal, I saw that everyone was excited because of Obama’s planned trip to Turkey in April. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came to Turkey and talked with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In this meeting, Hillary Clinton explicated that Obama will be visiting Turkey in April. This statement of Clinton caused a general excitement in Turkey; everyone tried to guess the goal of Obama’s choice to visit our country. Turkish politicians said that it was because of the fact that Turkey is the most powerful country in its region and a predominantly Muslim and secular country. These seems to be logical reasons of Obama’s planned trip to Turkey. Apparently, Barack Obama will address to all Muslim countries from Turkey and try to establish peace between them and USA.

So, this choice of Obama can be seen as his first step to peace with Muslim countries and USA. In my opinion, Obama is the only leader to end the prejudices of both sides, Muslims and American people. Besides, everything about Obama’s peace establishing plans for Muslim countries will be clarified next month; I’m waiting curiously to see what will happen.

In his second week of presidency, the 44th president of US, Barack Obama reached out to Muslim world. Barack Obama gave his first interview to a Dubai-based TV, Al-Arabiya. Moreover, his words clarified that he wanted to change America’s view to Muslims.

Obama said, “My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. He continued, “We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.”

These interview of US’s new president made clear that their target are Islamic terrorist organizations, not innocent Muslims. By giving the first interview to an Arabic TV and using peaceful words way different from the previous presidents, Barack Obama really gives an undertaking of hope.

Today, a new chapter in American and world history is being opened. The inauguration of US’s 44th president, Barack Obama, excited billions of people around the world; furthermore, I was one of them. Everyone was waiting to witness history and was curious about Obama’s speech. Time passed by, and he finally came on the stage. Firstly, Joe Biden made his speech of oath, and then Obama did. I thought that Obama forgot it because of his excitement when he stopped for a while. Then I realized that the chief made a mistake, and Obama was waiting for him to fix it. He fixed it, and when the oath was ended, Obama went to the rostrum to make his first speech as US’s 44th president. It was an amazing speech because Obama called out to everyone, not only the citizens of US. He called out to people of every religion and every socioeconomic class. By calling out to all the people in the world, Obama gave his first signal that he will not be only US’s president, he will be a leader of the world. The cameras continuously showed George W. Bush’s face in the crucial points of Obama’s speech; moreover, everyone could see that he was ashamed because what he has done to US and to the world by looking at his face. Furthermore, this was one of the crucial points of Obama’s speech:

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed – why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.