Faruk Kaymakçı

Political consultations will be held between Turkey and France under the leaderships of Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakcı and French Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Maurice Gourdault-Montagne in Paris on May 22, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement.

Parliament in Ankara will soon ratify the NATO accession protocol for North Macedonia and will not condition this with Skopje delivering suspected supporters of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara considers terrorists, Deputy Foreign Minister Faruk Kaymakci has said in an interview.

Ambassadors Faruk Kaymakçı and Sedat Önal and minister consultant Yavuz Selim Kıran have been appointed as deputy foreign ministers with a presidential decree issued on the Official Gazette on Aug. 7.

Turkey on Wednesday submitted to EU authorities a draft document for Turkish citizens to travel to Schengen countries visa-free, according to diplomatic sources, Anadolu Agency reports.

Turkish Ambassador to Iraq Faruk Kaymakçı has been assigned as Turkey's permanent representative to the EU, according to a decree published in the Official Gazette on Oct. 14.

Any offensive on Mosul intimately concerns Ankara as any mistake could lead to thousands of people fleeing their homeland, harm the struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and raise new complications in the fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said. 

Turkey and Iraq summoned their respective ambassadors on Oct. 5 amid bitter verbal exchanges regarding Turkish troops in the Bashiqa region of Mosul, as tension rises between two neighboring countries ahead of a planned operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).