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The turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on a statement he made on Monday he argued that the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not make the same mistakes as the outgoing administration in relations with Turkey.

Sonme 350 diplomats have been expelled from the Foreign Ministry since a July 2016 coup attempt due to links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), the alleged mastermind of the putsch, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said.

Iran has hit back at "unconstructive" Turkish allegations that Tehran's allies were violating a fragile cease-fire in Syria, accusing rebels of breaking the truce.

"The current cease-fire in Syria has been violated repeatedly by the anti-government armed opposition groups," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said on Jan. 4.

Turkey and Greece's respective foreign ministers, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Nikos Kotzias, will meet in New York to discuss the Cyprus reunification talks in Geneva next week, Turkish diplomatic sources have said. 

Both Çavuşoğlu and Kotzias are in New York to separately meet new U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gueterres, with the former set to meet the new chief on Jan. 5. 

Turkish police have sealed off roads into Bulgaria, fearing the gunman who killed 39 and wounded dozens in a nightclub in Istanbul might escape, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) says.

The gunman who staged an armed attack that claimed 39 lives in Istanbul's Reina nightclub on Jan. 1 has been identified, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Jan. 4.

Works conducted to reveal more details on the attack were ongoing, Çavuşoğlu added.  

The situation in Turkey's Mediterranean province of Antalya is that its tourism is quiet, but its politics is vivid and loud. 

Russia and Turkey agreed in a telephone call on Dec. 27 to push for a cease-fire in Syria and to prepare for possible peace talks planned in Astana set for next month, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. 

The United States has not discovered any involvement by Turkey in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) oil trade, the country's ambassador to Ankara has said.  

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted on Dec. 21 the seven-year-old "Syrian Twitter girl" Bana Alabed who has attracted the world's attention while tweeting from war-torn Aleppo, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Erdoğan hosted Bana and her family in the Presidential Palace in Ankara.