Ibrahim Kalin

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Istanbul declaration was not in “retaliation” to the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Dec. 14.

The U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is against international conventions and U.N. decisions, which will be tantamount to a “grave mistake,” presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Dec. 6.

Turkish presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın on Dec. 5 called on the United States administration to refrain from recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Only Turkey can decide on threats against its national security, Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Dec. 1, after Pentagon said Washington would retrieve weapons that could threaten Turkey from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said Turkey’s National Security Council will discuss the Pentagon’s statement on continuing the U.S.’s cooperation with the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Nov. 20 an incident during a recent NATO drill where the names of the Turkish Republic’s founder and current president were used in an “enemy chart” should be investigated carefully.

Turkey's talks with the United States over an on-going visa crisis are headed in a "good direction", President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday, quoted by Reuters. 

Turkey has received a request from the United States to solve an escalating row between the two countries, the spokesman for President Erdogan said on Thursday, after a U.S. consulate worker was arrested in Istanbul last week.

Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesperson for the Turkish president, has told a Belgrade daily that Recep Erdogan's visit to Serbia went in "an extraordinary atmosphere."

The Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum will have serious consequences and trigger fresh crises in the region, Presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Sept. 23.

"If referendum is not cancelled, it will have serious consequences. Arbil should immediately correct this grave mistake that will trigger new crises in the region," Kalın tweeted.