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Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has criticized Germany for the recent cancelation of rallies in support of constitutional change in Turkey, claiming that Berlin is working favor of the "no" campaign.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has vowed to follow through on a plan to go to Germany for a public rally even though local officials there have withdrawn previous authorization to appear at public demonstrations amid a continuing spat over human rights and free speech.  

Terrorism cannot be tolerated anywhere, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Feb. 16 ahead of a security conference in Munich.       

"It's our [Turkey's] right to expect concrete steps [on counter-terrorism efforts]," Çavuşoğlu said during an event organized by the government-linked Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) in Cologne. 

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated on Friday that Turkey will take the necessary steps against Athens after the decision of the Greek Supreme Court not to extradite the eight Turkish officers who fled the country after the coup attempt on July 15, reported Daily Sabah, citing TRT Haber.

Turkey and Russia have decided to invite the United States to Syria peace talks due to be held this month in the Kazakh capital Astana, Turkey's foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Jan.14.

Çavuşoğlu also reiterated that Turkey remained opposed to the inclusion of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the peace talks.

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. 

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.  

Turkey's foreign minister said Dec. 30 that the recent diplomatic tension between Russia and the United States "will serve nothing but add to the existing problems".

FM Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told reporters in southern Antalya province that such a tension "between the global actors" will be no good "for both of the countries and for the region."

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved an incredible success by thwarting Kosovo's back-door attempt to join the Council of Europe (CoE) but, unfortunately, the fight for our national interests does not end there, says Aleksandra Djurovic, who heads the Serbian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Ankara has urged Tehran to effect the immediate withdrawal of Shiite militants from Syria amid the announcement of plans for a trilateral meet among Turkey, Russia and Iran in Astana in mid-February 2017.