Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Turkey will "take reciprocal steps" if the United States imposes sanctions over the purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.

The Turkish lira weakened briefly to 5.9075 against US dollar after the comment, to its weakest level in two weeks.

Turkey will not back down from its decision to buy Russian S-400 missile defense systems and rejects any ultimatums on the issue, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday in response to US warnings about the purchase.

The Turkish and French top diplomats, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Jean Yves Le Drian, will meet in the Turkish capital on June 13 to discuss a wide-range of issues including the Syrian war, the tension in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Turkey's troubled European Union agenda as well as bilateral political issues.

The cause of Palestine and Al-Quds, or Jerusalem, will always remain the core issue for all of us, Turkey's top diplomatic Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on June 1.

Serbian and Turkish lawmakers will play a football match in Turkey's southern Antalya province, Turkish sports minister said on May 24.

In a letter to European Union member countries and the foreign ministers of the United Nations Security Council's permanent members, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday that the area off the western coast of Cyprus where Ankara plans to conduct exploratory drilling lies entirely within Turkish continental shelf.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed that a working group on Syria's northwestern province Idlib should convene as soon as possible, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 15.

Turkey's procurement of the Russian-made S-400 air defense systems are not going to be postponed or halted, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said, noting that Ankara and Washington are continuing to exchange views to establish a committee to assess the impact of its purchase of the Russian missile defenses systems on the U.S. F-35 fighter jets.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called on France to review its ties with the PYD/YPG, which Ankara considers as a terrorist group due to links with the PKK.

Ankara cannot accept a solution on Cyprus issue that ignores Turkish Cypriots and their will, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on May 4.