Foreign policy of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government

It is time to reconsider the issue of Turkey's membership in NATO, Erdogan's chief adviser, Yalcın Topcu, has stated, according to local media. Turkey has the second largest army in the alliance after the United States.

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister said on Nov. 16 that Turkey ranks second in television series exports after the U.S.

During President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to a Turkish military base in Qatar on Nov. 15, he urged the troops to conquer the hearts of the Qatari people.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed an apparent consensus between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Syria, in which the two leaders said “no military solution is possible” in war-torn country. Erdoğan said that anyone who does not believe in a military solution in Syria “should pull their troops out.” 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay a visit to Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Nov. 13 to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Athens was announced by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias at a press conference to the Greek diplomatic editors.

In particular, Mr. Kotzias said that on his recent voyage to Ankara it was agreed that Mr. Erdogan would visit Greece in the last ten days of November or early December.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has accepted the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Turkey.

Vucic met on Monday in Belgrade with Ismail Kahraman, president of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, who "conveyed the greetings of President Erdogan, as well as his invitation to visit Turkey, which was welcomed," the president's press service announced.

When Turkish officials were scrambling to resolve an escalating dispute with the US, their Nato ally this month, they had a plan.

BELGRADE - The presidents of Serbia and Turkey, Aleksandar Vucic and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, signed in Belgrade on Tuesday a joint political declaration on establishing a Serbia-Turkey High Cooperation Council.

Turkey will boycott the upcoming meetings of its representatives with the US ambassador to the country, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.