Foreign Ministry

The name of the next prime minister of the Republic of Turkey will become clear after an Aug. 21 meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), chaired by President-elect and outgoing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a senior Cabinet member said on Aug. 20.

The Foreign Ministry has denied a report claiming Turkey did not allow a German aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to northern Iraq to land at Ä°ncirlik airbase.

The Foreign Ministry has refuted media reports suggesting that thousands of foreign tourists had not been allowed to enter Turkey with e-visas at Dalaman Airport and Milas-Bodrum Airport, and that some of them had even been sent back to their home countries.

The Turkish government has toughened its stance on Germany’s alleged spying on Ankara, a NATO ally, while also vowing to take legal action over claims that the so-called “parallel structure” wiretapped a key governmental agency.

Any accuracy in reports that Germany has been spying on NATO ally Turkey are “worrying” and would pose “a grave situation” to the relationship between the two nations, the Foreign Ministry said in a strongly-worded statement released Aug. 18.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met on Thursday with UN Resident Coordinator in Serbia Irena Vojackova-Sollorano to discuss cooperation with the UN following the Donor Conference in Brussels.

The head of the Republika Srpska's Representative Office in the US, Obrad Kesic, says Serbs from the mainly Serbian entity in Bosnia should have their own representatives in the parliament in Serbia, the Bosnian newspaper Nezavisne reported on Monday.

Greek farmers are likely to be compensated for any losses they suffer as a result of a Russian embargo on imports from the European Union, the government has indicated.

“Greek producers will have the state’s full support,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Saturday as it sought to play down the impact of the temporary ban by Russian authorities.

Both the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have increased their condemnation of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu over to his approach toward the Islamic State (IS).

Both the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have increased their condemnation of Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu over to his approach toward the Islamic State (IS).