Foreign policy of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government

Ankara is a "crucial" trade partner for Moscow, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Aug. 18.        
"Multidimensional cooperation of our countries is developing," Novak said, as quoted by state-run Anadolu Agency.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, discussed the conflicts in Syria and Iraq by phone on Aug. 15.

The two leaders exchanged views over regional issues and bilateral relations, according to Turkish presidential sources.

Iran's Chief of General Staff Maj Gen Mohamed Baqeri is due to hold talks in Ankara with top Turkish officials, in a rare visit in which all regional security issues, the fight against terrorism, and developments in Syria and Iraq, including the Iraqi Kurds' upcoming independence referendum, will be discussed. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive on an official visit to Serbia in late September, the Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti said on Tuesday.

The report said that the Turkish delegation would include about 150 businesspeople from different sectors.

Hagia Sophia has been at the center of a campaign by Turkey's ruling party to communicate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's model of political Islam to the Turkish public over the past few years.

Turkey's membership to the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) was formally approved during a meeting in New York on July 25, the Foreign Ministry said on July 26.        

Senior members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Ted Poe (R-TX), Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA), and Representatives Jim Costa (D-CA) and John Sarbanes (D-MD) condemned Turkish President Erdogan’s violent crackdown – both in Turkey and the U.S.

Turkey's president said on July 21 that Turkey never saw Africa as a "virgin continent" with resources ripe for exploitation. 

Speaking in Istanbul, at an International Congress Gala Dinner on Health in Africa, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey wants to develop long-term business alliances on the continent with a "win-win" approach based on "mutual respect and equality." 

The Turkish naval fleet will join the countries that have their own airplane carrier. The country not only plans to get one but build it by themselves. This was declared by the president Recep Erdogan during a ceremony presenting new military ship also made by Turkey.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed Syria over the phone and agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting in Germany, according to a Turkish presidential source on June 30.