Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

Türkiye on Oct. 11 called for a ceasefire in Ukraine ahead of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the Kazakh capital Astana.

"A ceasefire must be established as soon as possible. The sooner the better," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said in an interview with the TVnet broadcaster.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu spoke over the phone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, on Oct. 10 and discussed the latest wave of Russian missile attacks on the capital Kiev and other major Ukrainian cities.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has announced that he will be representing his country at the funeral of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 19.

"I will visit the U.K. capital, London, on Monday and participate [in the funeral of the Queen] as a representative of Türkiye," he said on Sept. 14.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu reiterated Türkiye's warning toward Greece against further provocation in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean.

French President Emmanuel Macron's statements in Algeria about Türkiye were "unfortunate," Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Sept. 5.

During an annual international conference held in the Slovenian city of Bled, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu corrected the mistake of the panel's presenter who said "Turkey" instead of "Türkiye" while introducing him.

Top Turkish diplomat attended the 17th Bled Strategic Forum on Aug. 29 as a speaker at a panel called "How many Europes exist inside Europe?"

Türkiye's top diplomat has accused the Western nations, mostly the European Union countries and the United States, of deliberately complicating and prolonging the visa procedures for Turkish nationals, stressing that the envoys of these states will be summoned and urged in early September.

Defense Minister Hulusi Akar has described ongoing technical talks for Türkiye's request of purchasing 40 new F-16s from the United States as positive, following the fourth round of talks between the two countries' military experts.

The Ukrainian war has enabled EU countries to reopen their eyes to the realities of the world, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said, stressing that European security needs Türkiye, and therefore, Ankara has set focus on Europe again.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will meet in Tehran on July 19 for a Syria summit, the Kremlin announced.

"The president's visit to Tehran is being planned for July 19," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on July 12 adding that the trio would meet for Syrian peace talks.