Foreign Affairs Commission

Akif Çağatay Kılıç, foreign policy chief and security adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has engaged in a telephone conversation with U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Members of the United States Congress have committed to endeavors aimed at streamlining the sale of modernized F16 fighter jets to Türkiye, following a series of diplomatic discussions between representatives from the two nations.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on July 26 held talks with China's newly appointed Foreign Minister Wang Yi about bilateral relations as well as global and regional developments.

The Technical Regulation on the Deployment of Qatar Military Aircraft Personnel in Turkey signed between Ankara and Doha has been submitted to the parliament. Accordingly, Qatari fighter pilots will receive their training in Turkey, and Qatar will be able to keep 250 military personnel and 36 warplanes in the country for training purposes, daily Hürriyet reported on July 1.

In a move that will irritate Turkey, and which Ankara will oppose, the parliament of Moldova is to debate the mass slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in World War I, as part of an initiative to recognise it as an act of genocide.

A Turkish military base to be deployed in Qatar will be headquartered in Doha and lead by Qatari-Turkish generals, top official has said after sessions at parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay a working visit to the southern province of Antalya's Alanya district on Dec. 1 in his first visit after the normalization of Russian-Turkish ties following a crisis after a Russian warplane was shot down on Nov. 24, 2015, for allegedly violating Turkish airspace.

Parliament's national defense commission has agreed to rebuild the historic Russian commemorative monument San Stefano (Ayastefanos) in Istanbul, in return for the building of five Turkish monuments in Russia.

The unorthodox move on March 31 comes after months of tension between Ankara and Moscow over Turkey's downing of a Russian jet in November 2015. 

A parliamentary commission has adopted a protocol of the Council of Europe (CoE) prohibiting the cloning of humans. 

The protocol will become part of domestic law after being approved by the Turkish parliament's general assembly.

Recent hikes in electricity costs have produced anger even among ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentarians, prompting a defense from the Energy Ministry.