Mevlüt Çavu

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu held a meeting with visiting U.S. Senator for Florida Marco Rubio, also a former Republican presidential candidate, on May 5 focused on regional issues and the U.S.-led coalition's fight against jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has apparently been involved in hectic telephone diplomacy on the Syrian conflict as the Syrian army has, under pressure from Russia and the United States, agreed to respect a two-day truce in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) must immediately be pushed back from the Turkish border, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu, who has intensified diplomatic efforts on Syria ahead of a May 9 meeting in Paris, adding that efforts were continuing to accomplish this goal.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has exchanged views with his French counterpart on developments surrounding the Syrian conflict, with a particular focus on concerns stemming from renewed rebel shelling of government-held areas in the deeply contested northern city of Aleppo.

Turkey's primary nationalist opposition party leader has suggested that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been using an EU visa liberalization process with Turkey as a "carrot" to deploy her country's forces at Turkey's ?ncirlik Air Base.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exchanged their views over the violence in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, as the latter held urgent talks in Geneva in a bid to bolster a fragile, partial cease-fire in Syria. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry exchanged their views over the violence in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, as the latter was due to hold urgent talks in Geneva in a bid to bolster a fragile, partial cease-fire in Syria, while Turkish leaders were furious over assaults by regime forces in Aleppo. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu visited the capital of Qatar, Doha, this week for the first time during his term as prime minister. The timing of the trip is far from coincidental. Turkey has become a systematic target of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) along its borders with Syria, forcing it to find an urgent solution.

Turkey has conveyed its uneasiness to Sweden over the opening of a Democratic Union Party office in Stockholm, as the latter has stated that the representation office has "no diplomatic status."

The United Arab Emirates has decided to appoint an ambassador to Turkey after three years of coldness in ties, the Turkish foreign minister has said, noting that the new envoy would begin his job in Ankara on May 7.