Turkish Foreign Ministry

The U.S. State Department denied there was an agreement between Washington and Ankara on terms for a ?safe zone? inside northern Syria where the Kurdish People?s Protection Units (YPG) and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants would be kept out.

Trabzonspor?s star summer signing, Cameroonian midfielder Stephane M?bia, has ruled out Turkish media reports that his new club and the Turkish Foreign Ministry helped to save his family from clashes in his hometown in Cameroon. 

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif?s visit to Turkey has been postponed, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official told the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 11.

As an indication Turkey categorizes ties with the Arab League, Ankara has continued its economic relations with the organization, despite the political strain caused by a recent condemnation of the league and its secretary general, Egyptian Nabil al-Arabi, in particular. 

Turkey is not eager to embrace a recently-proposed Russian initiative to form a regional alliance to battle the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said any other plan regarding ISIL other than the ongoing international coalition effort is not on Turkey?s agenda. 

The family of Cameroon's Stephane M'bia, a summer signing for Trabzonspor, is in safe hands after the football club requested that the Turkish Foreign Ministry bring the player's relatives to Turkey following a bloody attack on their village by Boko Haram.

Kudret Özersay is a former Turkish Cypriot negotiator. He held the title of chief negotiator until last October when he was removed from duty after he announced he would run as a candidate in April?s presidential elections. Özersay, who had been involved in the negotiations since 2003, was replaced by Özdil Nami after Mustafa Ak?nc? won in the April elections.

Turkish military August 2 denied allegations that it hit civilians in the village of Zergele during air strikes amid Foreign Ministry launched an investigation into the claims

Turkish air-strikes killed at least 9 people in the Kurdish village of Zargala in Northern Iraq, according to reports from local media.

Turkish Foreign Ministry on Aug. 1 said an investigation has been opened into claims that several civilians were killed in an air strike against militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said Aug. 1 six people had been killed in a pre-dawn strike by Turkish war planes on the village of Zarkel in northern Iraq.