Foreign Ministry

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu will attend a high-level meeting of the international community on combating the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on June 2 in Paris.

The voting for Turkey's June 7 general elections has ended in 54 countries with more than 1 million people voting abroad, mainly in European countries. 

Turkey has expressed serious concern that Mahinur Özdemir, a Belgian deputy of Turkish origin, has been expelled from her party for refusing to call the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians a ?genocide,? calling on all Belgian political parties and institutions to act in common sense.  

A new official communication portal titled ?Memleketim? (My Country), which aims to build stronger communication ties with Turkish expats, has reached nearly 2,500 members, according to a Foreign Ministry official.

Myanmar's delegate to talks in Bangkok on Southeast Asia's migrant crisis on May 29 rebuked the UN's refugee agency for calling on the country to recognise the Muslim Rohingya minority as citizens to stem their exodus from its shores.

Turkish authorities said May 27 that Ankara is planning to send humanitarian aid to Yemeni people in need.

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have agreed on the necessity to enforce a safe zone and a no-fly zone in Syria despite the absence of such an agreement with the US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it has no information about Bulgarian officials having been denied access to the United States over suspected involvement in corruption.

The Finance Ministry said that all salary and pension payments due Friday were made on time, apart from the wages for employees at OPEKEPE, a government body responsible for paying out farming subsidies.

A Turkish cargo ship, which was attacked by the Libyan military off the Libya coast on May 10, was en route to the port in Tobruk with proven documents and carrying declared cargo, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç has said, dismissing allegations that the vessel had been carrying weapons and approaching the city of Derna in Libya.