Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Ankara will provide a credit facility of $5 billion to Iraq at a meeting on the country’s reconstruction on Feb. 14, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has stated.

To combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the coalition needs common action and a unity of purpose, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Feb. 13 during a meeting of the U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition.

The ongoing decisions, coordination and closeness between Egypt and Cyprus and the maritime demarcation deal between the two countries have been raising concern in Turkey over the past few years, amid Ankara's tense relations with both Cairo and Nicosia, said Egyptian political experts.

Turkey's foreign minister assailed the United States on Monday, claiming that American forces in Syria are intentionally stalling the fight against Islamic State militants as an excuse not to cut ties with Syrian Kurdish militiamen as Ankara has demanded.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu came together with members of the Ottoman dynasty in Istanbul on Feb. 11, the day after events held for the centenary of the death of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II.

Ties with the United States have been at a “very critical point,” according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. These relations will either be fixed or they will break down completely, Çavuşoğlu said, days before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Ankara.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu paid a surprise visit to the Iranian capital Tehran on Feb. 7 to hold talks on Turkey’s ongoing “Operation Olive Branch” in the northern Syrian district of Afrin.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has claimed that Turkey has accomplished all necessary work for the fulfillment of the remaining seven criteria out of 72 for visa-free travel to the EU’s Schengen zone, and will send a letter detailing Ankara’s steps to European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans.

Ankara is "prepared to take all necessary measures" to protect the rights of the Turkish Cypriots and the Turkish continental shelf in the eastern Aegean, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu tells Kathimerini in an interview.

Turkey has a plan to conduct exploration activities in the eastern Mediterranean region in the near future, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Feb. 4.