Hüseyin Müftüoğlu

The Foreign Ministry on March 13 blasted a Swiss newspaper over its "derogatory" remarks against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and its "misleading" report about Turkey's upcoming constitutional referendum. 

Turkey urged Bulgaria on March 09, not to restrict political rights of minorities and to comply with the "rule-based" European system, in reference to a recent law legislated by the Bulgarian parliament that restricts the number of ballot boxes to be established in Turkey to 35, according to Hürriyet Daily News.

An official ceremony was held on Feb. 24 to commemorate the victims of the 1942 Struma incident, a World War II tragedy that resulted in the death of over 750 Romanian Jews after their ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine after it had been forced to remain docked for two months in Istanbul.

Relations between Turkey and Iran have become strained following an exchange of words between the two neighbors, just days before a new round of Syria peace talks are expected to start in Geneva. 

Turkey's Foreign Ministry denounced a statement from an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, who called on Turkey to not "test Iran's patience."

Turkey's Foreign Ministry has denounced a statement from an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, who called on Turkey to not "test Iran's patience."

Turkey accused Greece on Friday of breaching international law by carrying out a military exercise on an island in the Aegean Sea, in an escalating row between the two NATO allies.

Turkey accused Greece on Feb. 3 of breaching international law by carrying out a military exercise on an island in the Aegean Sea amid an escalating row between the two NATO allies. 

The Turkish government has said it welcomed a motion adopted by the Danish parliament, which ruled in reference to the mass killing of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 that neither parliaments nor governments should be places for historical controversies.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry's undersecretary will meet his Turkish counterpart next week for political consultations over the two countries' normalization process, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hüseyin Müftüoğlu said Jan. 26.

The Israeli official will visit the Turkish capital on Feb. 1, a Turkish diplomat told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

Deputy Shipping Minister Nektarios Santorinios says there are no plans to create infrastructure or settle people on uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea as part of the government's plans to develop them.