Foreign Ministry

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff on Thursday condemned attempts of revising WWII history in Croatia and across Europe.

Thanks to social media, government secrets are less protected today than they were in the past. Every "secret document" can easily leak online and every covert scene can easily go viral. This lets us citizens discover some nasty stuff that our rulers would not like to share with us.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic and the Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre Efraim Zuroff on Thursday condemned attempts of revising WWII history in Croatia and across Europe.

Turkey will take steps to try to prevent use of the term "Turkish school" by international educational facilities linked to the network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated.

A high-level political dialogue mechanism between Turkey and the European Union will convene in Ankara on Sept. 9 to overview the state of accession talks and the migrant deal, in the first such ministerial meeting since Turkey's failed coup attempt on July 15. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is to attend a meeting in London, in which the future of Syria will be discussed amid an ongoing operation into its southern neighbor to push jihadists off the Turkish border. 

"Our minister will attend the meeting on Syria under British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Sept. 7," read a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on Sept. 6. 

Turkish Ambassador to Berlin Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu returned to Turkey late on June 2, after the German Parliament approved a bill describing the 1915 massacres of Ottoman Armenians as genocide.

Outgoing Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu began his political career as a diplomatic adviser 14 years ago. He rose to the Foreign Ministry and ultimately to the Prime Ministry with the Justice and Development Party (AKP) before choosing to quit the latter post on May 5. 

Foreign Ministry officials are reportedly concerned that the recent spate of Turkish violations of Greek air space and waters with military jets and warships could lead to an escalation of tensions between the two neighbors.

A bomb factory belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was hit and destroyed by Turkish drones in the Azaz district of Syria's Aleppo on May 1.