Foreign policy of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan government

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday during a one-day visit to Romania that the two countries would work together on developing trade and tourism.

President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday invited Romanian business people to make investments in Turkey, but also the Turkish business people to invest in Romania.

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The ruling Justice and Development Party?s (AK Parti) ?zero problems with neighbors? policy was nothing but a derivative of the Turkish Republic?s strategic position formulated by its founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as ?peace at home, peace in the world.?

Turkey and Russia do not have common interests in energy in the long-term, and EU could boost cooperation with Ankara through its nascent Energy Union, a recent report argues.

Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met with Turkish government figures in Ankara and Istanbul on Dec. 19, amid efforts to boost cooperation against Islamist jihadists in Iraq and Syria.

The European Parliament's new rapporteur for Turkey has urged the country to intensify cooperation on foreign policy coordination and cooperation, calling on it to support the European Union's sanctions on Russia.

The two neigbors have committed to develop closer ties in various fields and make more effords to resume Cyprus peace talks at the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu's visit to Athens Turkey and Greece have reiterated their commitment to further develop bilateral ties through cooperation in various fields, including supplying natural gas to European markets, while intensifying their effort

Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by a large delegation including 10 ministers, visited Turkey on Dec. 1 to attend the fifth session of the High-Level Cooperation Council (HLCC), an inter-governmental mechanism designed to oversee the cooperation between the two countries and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to enhance it.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said the 6 percent reduction in the price of natural gas pledged by Russia is not sufficient, revealing that the relevant parties have directly approached Russian President Vladimir Putin to increase the reduction.

Turkey and Russia have signed fresh documents in a bid to boost ties. The highlight of Russian President Putin's press conference with his Turkish counterpart Erdoğan was his announcement of a six percent discount in natural gas prices for exports to Turkey, as well as the cancellation of the South Stream pipeline.