Levent Murat Burhan

Turkey's former ambassador to Tokyo, Hasan Murat Mercan, was officially appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Washington on Feb. 24.

The appointment decisions of some ambassadors regarding the reshuffle at the Foreign Ministry were published in the Official Gazette.

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.

Turkey has strongly reacted against Pope Francis' description of the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide," vowing to show an appropriate reaction against the Vatican.