İbrahim Kalın

Turkey regards European Union membership as a “strategic aim,” presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Jan. 4.

Presidential Spokesman İbrahim Kalın has said a cabinet reshuffle is not on the government’s agenda, stressing that the executive branch was working “harmoniously” and “efficiently.”

A U.S. court’s verdict finding Turkish banker Hakan Atilla guilty of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions is a “scandalous decision of a scandalous case,” Turkish presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said Jan. 4.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) Istanbul declaration was not in “retaliation” to the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital, presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Dec. 14.

The U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is against international conventions and U.N. decisions, which will be tantamount to a “grave mistake,” presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Dec. 6.

Turkish presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın on Dec. 5 called on the United States administration to refrain from recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Turkish Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Nov. 20 an incident during a recent NATO drill where the names of the Turkish Republic’s founder and current president were used in an “enemy chart” should be investigated carefully.

Turkey has received a request from the United States to solve an escalating row between the two countries, the spokesman for President Erdogan said on Thursday, after a U.S. consulate worker was arrested in Istanbul last week.

Ibrahim Kalin, a spokesperson for the Turkish president, has told a Belgrade daily that Recep Erdogan's visit to Serbia went in "an extraordinary atmosphere."

The stance adopted by Germany and other European countries "attacking Turkey and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" is a reflection of Europe's "narrowing horizon," presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın said on Sept. 4.