Tanju Bilgiç

Turkish Foreign Affairs Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic issued a statement in response to a question regarding Greek Foreign Ministry officials' remarks on the Aegean. The statement is as follows:

Just a day after describing as ?unacceptable? remarks from the Arab League head that Turkey was one of the ?foreign powers? meddling in Yemen, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has ?condemned? the claim, issuing a statement specifically addressing the controversy.

Turkey has called on Greece to avoid unilateral action in the Aegean Sea if Athens does not want to harm the ?positive atmosphere? between the two countries.

Ankara has strictly refuted charges by neighboring Syria that Turkey assisted Islamist rebels staging an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital that opposition fighters seized over the weekend.

Any intervention into Idlib by Turkey is ?untrue,? said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said at a press conference on March 31.

Worried about a draft resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognizes the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as genocide, a group of Turkish politicians have set out for Washington to ensure that the resolution does not pass.

Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek arrived in Washington and is expected to meet his counterpart at the House of Representatives on March 25.

Turkish Foreign Ministry on March 14 slammed the human rights report adopted by the European Parliament, saying that the report lacked historical reality and legal basis.

Britain is seeking to better help Turkey prevent foreigners crossing into Syria to join jihadist groups, the chairman of the U.K.'s Home Affairs Select Committee stated on March 3.

"I do not think it is the job of the Turkish police and the Turkish authorities to chase our citizens. This all has to be done with cooperation," said Keith Vaz at the committee.

Turkey says a recent notice seeking to reserve a large swath of airspace over the Aegean Sea for military maneuvers was issued by mistake and then canceled.

A statement by Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic said Tuesday that the Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, was inadvertently declared "with an inaccurate coordinate." He did not elaborate.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said Turkey ?mistakenly? declared inaccurate coordinates for long-distance dangerous areas over Aegean Sea and canceled the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM).

Ankara would not declare a new dangerous area for a certain period of time, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said in a written statement on March 3.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry disapproves of British parliamentarians' call for Turkish Airlines CEO Temel Kotil to appear before them about three Londoner schoolgirls believed to have joined Islamists in Syria after flying to Turkey last week, a spokesperson has said.