Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

First lady Emine Erdoğan and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh alongside a Turkish delegation on Sept. 7. 

"It's impossible not to be effected [by the situation] as a human. May God help them," Erdoğan said after visiting the Kutupalong Camp, housing Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Myanmar since Aug. 25.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has described Germany's anti-Turkey policies as "populism," using an expression along the lines of "down with populism."

Turkey's EU Minister Ömer Çelik will come together with foreign ministers of EU countries at the Informal Meeting of Foreign Ministers in Estonia this week, his office announced on Sept. 5.

Çelik's meeting with top EU diplomats comes at a time when Germany had announced it will discuss suspending or ending Turkey's accession negotiations with the EU in an October meeting. 

Turkey's EU Minister Ömer Çelik will hold talks with the foreign ministers of EU countries at an informal meeting this week, following German Chancellor Angela Merkel's announcement that she plans to ask for the suspension or ending of Ankara's bid to join the EU at the European Council in October. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Sept. 2 dismissed Berlin's reaction to the arrest of German citizens in Turkey, local media have reported, a row which is worsening the nations' already fraying ties.

"When we arrest [a coup plotter] Germany starts to get upset. But what are we supposed to do?" Çavuşoğlu said.

Ankara has slammed Germany over German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel's statement that Turkey will never join the European Union as long as it is governed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.  

Gabriel's remarks came on Aug. 24 amid a bitter ongoing war of words between Ankara and Berlin.

Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is visiting Poland today in order to participate in the next meeting of regular political military consultations among the foreign ministers of Turkey, Romania and Poland to be held in Warsaw, reports turkish newspaper The Daily Sabah.

Ankara has asked the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to close its office in Ankara and demand that its personnel leave Turkey, Bahruz Galali, the party's representative to Ankara told the Hürriyet Daily News on Aug. 24 after he and his family arrived in Suleymaniyeh.

Turkey and Iraq will discuss the issue of the Bashiqa military camp, which has Turkish troops, close to Mosul, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Aug. 23. 

The fair in the Aegean province of İzmir is being named among not only Turkey's but one of the world's oldest fairs. Although at one stage its impact and content were open to intense debates, I must say that I see a serious change in the last two years. This can be seen from the number of the participants and the interest from sponsors.