Öncü Keçeli

In a clear sign of intensified common efforts to clear northern Iraq of PKK terrorists, Türkiye and Iraq will hold another high-level security summit in Baghdad on March 14 with the participation of two countries' defense and foreign ministers as well as intelligence chiefs.

Türkiye and Greece have agreed to discuss the confidence-building measures in the Aegean and Mediterranean at a special meeting in April before Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' planned visit to Türkiye in May.

Türkiye is set to deliver an oral presentation at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) today, addressing concerns over Israel's practices in Palestine, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Öncü Keçeli.

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum, which will hold its third event since its foundation, will focus on the ongoing crisis in Gaza, where the Israeli security forces are committing massacres of civilians that left more than 28,000 people already dead.

A deal between Türkiye and the United States on the sale of 40 new F-16s to the former creates a window of opportunity for further improving the bilateral ties should the latter show more respect to the Turkish sensitivities in combatting terrorism.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Öncü Keçeli has urged Turkish citizens to avoid traveling to Sudan unless absolutely necessary as the war-torn country grapples with a deteriorating security situation marked by an escalating humanitarian crisis.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned what it called the "provocation" in a mosque in the occupied West Bank by Israeli troops who were seen reciting a Jewish prayer.

Video footage showed soldiers inside a mosque in Jenin refugee camp using loudspeakers to recite the Shema Yisrael, a central prayer in Judaism.

Turkish authorities have evacuated a group of 142 citizens from the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

The passengers transferred from Gaza to the Egyptian capital Cairo arrived in Istanbul early on Dec. 4, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Öncü Keçeli announced.

In a war of words on social media, Türkiye and Israel have engaged in an exchange over the status of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as the Turkish ministry responded sharply to Israeli top diplomat Eli Cohen's statement on X, formerly Twitter.