Fuat Oktay

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has called on Turkish businessmen to be "brave" when making investments in foreign countries, while vowing the government's support for them.

In a move that essentially serves to underline Turkish claims in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ankara has issued three navigational telexes (navtexes 1291/18, 1298/18 and 1299/18) reserving a sea area for naval exercises and seismic surveys by its research vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Pasa.

Turkey is not prepared to make the "slightest compromise" with regards to its energy plans around Cyprus, the Aegean or the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has said.

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has called on the U.S. to act in accordance with the spirit of its alliance and partnership with Turkey.

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has stormed out of an international conference on Libya organized in Italy over what he described as "attempts to keep Turkey out of the process" in the northern African country. 

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey doubled tariffs on some U.S. imports including cars, alcohol and tobacco on Wednesday in retaliation for U.S. moves, but the lira rallied a further six percent after a fresh move by banking authorities to underpin the currency.

Vice President Fuat Oktay and Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Aug. 8 visited the Black Sea province of Ordu where torrential rains have caused massive flooding.

Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has received the 20th Ayd?n Do?an Award in a ceremony held in Istanbul, marking the first instance of a state institution being recognized by the Ayd?n Do?an Foundation. 

Turkey's disaster agency is not only housing and assisting the country's nearly 3 million refugees but also actively working to help 40 disaster-stricken countries around the world, the president of the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has told daily Hürriyet upon receiving the 20th prestigious Ayd?n Do?an Award for its outstanding efforts in Turkey and abroad. 

Some 330,000 Syrian children are given formal education at state schools in Turkey, Education Minister Nabi Avc? has said in Brussels, urging European states to "contribute to these efforts."