Turkey's Foreign Ministry

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian ambassador in Ankara to complain about protests against Turkish missions and businesses in Russia following Turkey's downing of a Russian jet.

A Foreign Ministry statement said on Nov. 26 that Turkish offices had come under "unacceptable" physical attacks disguised as protests.

Five officials from Turkey's Foreign Ministry resigned before an Aug. 31 deadline to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said Sept. 2.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has defended its report on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), stating it was only one of the many reports it did on Turkey.

World Uighur Congress (WUC) head Rebiya Kadeer has criticized Chinese oppression of the Uighur Turks living in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, saying that massacres, extrajudicial executions and oppression against Uighurs was continuing, daily Hürriyet reported on July 8.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has "condemned" the June 25 detention of nine Turkish citizens, including journalists and activists, by Israeli security units for nine hours and subsequent deportation of seven of them.

Bulgaria's Ambassador in Ankara Krasimir Tulechki was summoned to Turkey's Foreign Ministry Saturday.

The meeting was regarding the decision taken by Bulgaria's National Assembly to recognize the ''mass extermination'' of Armenians as opposed to the initial version of the document that qualified it as ''genocide''.

A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed three people on April 17 outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
  

Nine officials from Turkey's Foreign Ministry resigned before the Feb. 10 deadline in order to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for June 7.

Commemorating the Holocaust victims, Turkey is calling on the international community to participate in the efforts to increase awareness of the Holocaust so that such a tragedy never occurs in the future.

Turkey has welcomed Kosovo's newly formed government, which came after the country's two largest parties agreed to form a coalition, a statement from Turkey's Foreign Ministry has said.