Liu Shaobin

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on April 6 summoned the Chinese ambassador to Ankara over the Chinese Embassy's social media posts that caused discomfort.

The discomfort caused by the embassy's Twitter posts was conveyed to Chinese Ambassador Liu Shaobin, said an official on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

Turkey's foreign minister on Jan. 4 welcomed the new ambassadors of China, Bangladesh, Sweden, Japan, and Sudan.

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu shared a post on Twitter with pictures of his meetings with Chinese envoy Liu Shaobin, Mosud Mannan of Bangladesh, Sweden's Staffan Herrstrom, Japan's Kazuhiro Suzuki, and Adil Ibrahim Mustafa of Sudan.