NEW - Armenia says it is lifting an embargo on Turkish goods from January 1
"A decision was made not to extend the embargo on the import of Turkish goods into the country," Yerevan's economy ministry said
-AFP
FM Çavuşoğlu:
-China blocked Turkish visit to Uyghur region for 5 years
"Why have you been preventing this delegation from visiting for five years?
"China has extradition requests for people who live in Türkiye, we don't grant any such requests"
Germany is also highly criticized for only flying 7 people out of Afghanistan with the Airbus A400 - a military transport plane designed for 114 people
A spokesman for the German Defense Ministry on the abandoned Afghan local staff in Kabul: "It's not like we forced them to work with us."
— The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Wir sind der
#Tuerkei
🇹🇷 dankbar für ihr Angebot zum Weiterbetrieb des Flughafens
#Kabul
. Auch Deutschland ist bereit, dabei zu unterstützen - finanziell, aber auch technisch. Das habe ich gerade gegenüber meinem Kollegen
@MevlutCavusoglu
betont. Teşekkürler!
ANALYSIS: As
#COVID19
affects all aspects of life, its influence on global conflicts has been another question yet to be answered. While fighting escalated in
#Libya
, a relative calm is seen in
#Syria
lately
- With the contributions of
@yusufalabarda
Followed the foreign ministry's budget commission debates
Main topics; diplomats' salaries, education expenses of their children, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, terrorism, EU membership, visa problems
INTERVIEW- Iraqi PM Sudani
"(Development Road) All economic indicators, feasibility studies suggest this corridor is most cost-effective &
fastest among available routes"
ERDOĞAN-ASSAD NORMALIZATION
-Meeting planned to take place in Moscow, under Putin mediation
-Iran likely not to be invited
-Iraq’s Sudani could also attend talks
-Planned after August
-Source
Wishing the best to
@MevlutCavusoglu
, grateful for all the contributions he made to Turkish diplomacy in the past 8 years. Honored to have had the chance of following him as a journalist
NEW - Erdoğan slams U.S. statement on terror attack in which 13 Turkish citizens were killed by the PKK
"The U.S. statement on the PKK’s execution of Turkish citizens in northern Iraq is ridiculous. They claim they do not support the PKK, but they certainly do"
The Syrian National Army calls for the suspension of Sochi as it is already ignored by Russia, Assad and is just limiting actions of the SNA
#syria
#sochi
@MustafaSejari
NEW - Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu tells Taliban Turkey is concerned over reports of women activist disappearances and urges for girls’ education in Afghanistan
FM Çavuşoğlu:
-Turkey was ready to meet with Haftar, Aquila Saleh – they backtracked later
-Haftar’s condition was to meet with Erdoğan, who rejected to meet
-Turkey does not differentiate between west or east, supports united Libya
-Turkey historically closer to east
JUST IN - No details yet on cooperation with Turkey on Afghanistan, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi says, adding that Ankara’s proposal will be discussed soon
JUST IN - Security sources tell Daily Sabah Assad regime, Russia knowingly targeted Idlib's Atareb hospital as its coordinates were shared to a UN entity, also that they tried to target it once again previously
TR, UAE to sign deals for energy, technology investments & in fields of marine ports, logistics
Reuters reports MOUs will be signed between the Abu Dhabi Development Holding (ADQ), Turkish Wealth Fund (TVF), and the Turkish Presidency Investment Office, as well as with TR firms
INTERVIEW - Indonesia' Ambassador
@AchmadRPurnama
:
-Under new president-elect Subianto, Türkiye, Indonesia ties to grow further, with focus on defense industry, construction, energy & health
-Turkish construction companies invited to work on projects for new capital Nusantara
NEW - Responding to Daily Sabah's question,FM Çavuşoğlu says Abu Dhabi told Ankara that
‘Turkey, Qatar & UAE may operate Kabul airport trilaterally’
'Turkey, Qatar and Taliban did not agree on operating airport yet'
INTERVIEW - Iraq Transportation Minister
-Neighboring countries interested in Development Road
-Iran positive on project, no contact with Egypt
-Special law, industrial zone to be created for Al-Faw
-A 2nd project will link al-Faw and Umm Qasr ports
Amid simmering tensions in East Med, Aegean, experts state Athen's militarization of islands close to Turkish mainland poses threat to Ankara’s national security
With comments by Cihat Yaycı and Cem Gürdeniz
JUST IN – Erdoğan “Steps similar to those taken with UAE will be taken with Egypt, Israel”
TR and the UAE experienced rapprochement after Crown Prince MBZ made his 1st visit in 10 years
Several cooperation deals were signed while UAE announced a $10 billion investment fund
Participated in the end-of-year press briefing of FM Çavuşoğlu
Important headlines: Assad regime talks, Greece tensions, China criticism, Russian invasion of Ukraine and more
As new diplomatic maneuverings and realignments in the region led Turkey last year to pursue areas of cooperation & dialogue with the region’s main actors, new obstacles, opportunities emerge to be followed in 2022
Insights of
@AliBakeer
@GiorgioCafiero
INTERVIEW: Russian Envoy Aleksei Erkhov exclusively speaks to Daily Sabah:
“GNA operation on Libya’s Sirte has not much chances to succeed”
“Foreign interference will not bring peace, stability to Libya”
TURKEY-IRAQ statement's importance:
PKK was defined as common threat in Dec.
This time, it was defined as a banned organization by Iraq for 1st time
The decision of Iraqi National Security Council was shared with the public for 1st time
Joint fight was mentioned for 1st time
ANALYSIS - Turkey’s warning to enter Iraq’s Sinjar to eliminate the PKK has rekindled tensions with Iran. Coupled with pro-Iran groups’s repeated threats, the crisis is likely to linger, experts warn
Comments by
@WatheqAlsadoon
&
@hakkiuygur1
INTERVIEW - Energy Minister
@aBayraktar1
-“Türkiye to reduce dependency on foreign sources in upcoming 30 years”
-“Türkiye in talks with Russia, China, South Korea for 2nd, 3rd nuclear plants in Sinop, Thrace”
-“Ankara in talks with US and UK for small modular reactors”
#Turkey
Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, whose resignation was rejected by President
#Erdo
ğan, says he’s humbled by support of nation and president, pledges to “continue work in the service of the nation” in first statement following the incident
INTERVIEW -Afghanistan’s FM told
@DailySabah
“Turkey securing the airport will allow Afghanistan to maintain high capabilities in Kabul airport - important for the continued presence of the diplomatic community & int'l assistance"
@AfghanEmbAnkara
LIVE — Vice President Oktay in Lebanon: We are ready to allocate the Port of Mersin for commerce, customs and storage usage until the Port of Beirut begins operating again
UAE Crown Prince MBZ visits Turkey after years of tensions in bid to resume relations and discuss Emirati investments
-Erdoğan, MBZ to sign agreements after talks
Points of disagreement
-UAE-Israel deal
-Libya
-Gulf issues
-East Med
Diplomatic sources:
A Joint Security Coordination Center is being established in Baghdad
A separate Joint Training and Cooperation Center is being established in Bashiqa
All of these centers will allow Türkiye, Iraq countries to fight terrorism
NEW - Turkey's Vice President Fuat Oktay says Turkey to resume drilling operations in the Mediterranean next month with the Abdulhamid Han drilling ship
The announcement comes as tensions with Greece are once again on rise
NEW – Turkey, Algeria to establish joint petrol and natural gas research company
The joint company will be established between Algeria's national petrochemicals firm Sonatrach and Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TP)
-Energy Minister Dönmez via AA
Herzlichen Glückwunsch, liebe
@ABaerbock
! Mit Dir als Außenministerin soll das Auswärtige Amt zum ersten Mal von einer Frau geführt werden. Nach 151 Jahren ist es höchste Zeit! Deutschland in der Welt zu vertreten ist Ehre & Herausforderung zugleich. Alles erdenklich Gute dafür!
NEW - Erdoğan to speak to Putin tomorrow in phone call
Erdoğan: “Ukraine has asked Turkey for help in the case of referendums held in four regions. I will speak with Putin on the issue tomorrow"
ANALYSIS - In search of a lasting peace, Libyans have engaged in U.N.-led talks to hold national elections & hammer out a new transitional government – yet the road head still poses many challenges
With the insights of
@n_cherk
&
@emadmuntasser
NEW - Turkey's Economy Minister arrives in the UAE for his first visit abroad after coming into office and will discuss opportunities for economic cooperation
NEW - Turkey condemns the coup attempt in Armenia, FM Çavuşoğlu says during a press conference with Szijjarto in Budapest
Armenia’s PM spoke of a coup after the General Staff demanded that he step down following months of protests sparked by the defeat in Karabakh
JUST IN – Erdoğan: “Taliban should end occupation in Afghanistan”
“We will see what kind of talks we will have with the Taliban and see where these talks take us”
Turkey offered to run and secure Kabul airport after a US-led pullout, a proposal rejected by the Taliban
INTERVIEW - head of the
@SyriaCivilDef
@RaedAlSaleh3
:
“The Syrian situation has become an arena of conflict, maneuvering and pressure for the influential actors in both the Syrian crisis and Russian war on Ukraine"
INTERVIEW: Demir clarified that Turkey has sold one batch of UCAVs to Ukraine and that the current process is nothing new but a continuation of the initial agreement
“It has no connection to the latest developments.”
Russia’s decision to recognize Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk as independent is unacceptable, Turkey says
"The decision of Russia to recognise the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk Republics amounts to a clear violation of not only the Minsk agreements, but also Ukraine's unity"
NEW - Erdoğan slams U.S. statement on terror attack in which 13 Turkish citizens were killed by the PKK
"The U.S. statement on the PKK’s execution of Turkish citizens in northern Iraq is ridiculous. They claim they do not support the PKK, but they certainly do"
The US condemns the killing of 13 kidnapped Turkish citizens in northern Iraq "if reports that the PKK was responsible were confirmed"
⁃Spokesperson Ned Price
#PKKTer
örÖrgütüdür
JARABLUS -Buildings are rising, children have returned to school, people’s faces glimmer with hope & shops have popped up in every nook of the streets in northern Syria's Jarablus in the four years since
#Turkey
launched Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016
EAST MED- Turkey's Foreign Minister says agreed on holding exploratory talks, confidence building measures in meeting with Greek counterpart in Bratislava
The talks will be held in Turkey
Defense Minister Akar:
"Shelters, bunkers, caves, tunnels and warehouses belonging to terrorists were destroyed with great success. The so-called headquarters of the terrorist organization were also directly hit"
France clueless about future in
#Libya
as it continues to deny its presence there in support of putschist Haftar, who has wreaked havoc in the oil-rich country for years
@toumi_abdennour
(On autonomous UAVs) “Although technologically we are able to use this capability on the field, we never engage in targets that aren't determined 100%, the target is controlled by humans”
“Our defense industry cooperation with Africa is enhancing"
2023 evaluation meeting with Minister Fidan
-Blinken to visit TR Saturday
-TR-Erbil in full cooperation against PKK
-West's failed Gaza response risks regional spread of conflict
JUST IN - Erdoğan holds phone call with Macron
"As two strong NATO allies, we can provide vital contributions to security, stability and peace efforts in a wide geography from Europe to the Caucasus, Middle East and Africa"
Erdoğan also said terrorism can be countered together
EAST MED: Another positive message from Greece as the tone between Ankara & Athens softened recently
"Let's meet, let's talk and let's seek a mutually acceptable solution. Let's give diplomacy a chance," Mitsotakis said to Erdoğan in an address at the UN General Assembly
Marking International Women’s Day 2023, Embassy hosted a panel discussion 'Facing Adversity': sharing of experiences to recognize and honour contributions of women in overcoming large scale challenges such as natural disasters
Discussed the situation of women ahead of Turkish elections on
@alhurranews
-50,7 % of voters female
-Women still underrepresented in politics despite development
(women in parliament were 4 % in 2002, increased to 17%)
-domestic violence still a problem
Germany's former CDU leader Armin Laschet :
“We stopped Nord Stream 2, but this is nothing that helps in this conflict because there is no gas in Nord Stream 2, it is just a symbol to say we want to diversify our gas production.”
NEW - Turkish parliament's foreign commission today likely to approve Sweden's NATO accession protocol
Next step would be for the protocol to go to the general assembly where it could wait a little more
TR-US
US renews call on Turkey to get rid of Russian S-400s, appearing to reject Ankara's offer
"Our policy vis-a-vis the S-400s has not changed," State Department spox Ned Price said when asked about the Turkish proposal
"Russian S-400s are incompatible with NATO equipment"
Milli Savunma Bakanımız ile birlikte
#Bak
ü’de Cenab Cumhurbaşkanı İlham Aliyev’le görüştük. Şuşa’da yeniden şanlı
#Azerbaycan
bayrağının dalgalanması nedeniyle tebrik ettik. Arazideki son gelişmelerden gurur duyuyoruz.
Sen çok yaşa Can Azerbaycan! 🇹🇷🇦🇿
@azpresident
@tcsavunma
LATEST - Mohammed Hassan Al Suwaidi, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Development Holding, said: "The United Arab Emirates has set aside a $10 billion fund to invest in Turkey."
Was part of the
@G20India_
media delegation and visited New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Ghandinagar and Mumbai in the past ten days
One earth, one family, one future
LATEST - Palestinian President Abbas enters the Turkish parliament to make his speech
Abbas was invited by Ankara after Netanyahu was hosted at the US Congress
NEW - Diplomatic sources say Sweden's ambassador was summoned to the foreign ministry over PKK-affiliated elements' propaganda in Stokholm today in violation of the trilateral statement
I thank Vice Director of the Presidential Communications Directorate
@cagatayozdemirr
for sending his newly published book "The rise and fall of the Eagle" which is a valuable evaluation of the changing world order and the transformation of the US' global role
A new period starts in Turkish diplomacy as Çavuşoğlu, who served for 8 years, established the Antalya Diplomacy Forum & made significant contributions to the Ukraine-Russia war resolving efforts among other works, leaves the post to Turkey's former intelligence chief Hakan Fidan
INTERVIEW - Iraqi Deputy FM Al-Alawi
-"Among the countries in the region, Iraq and Türkiye have the biggest interest in working together to end conflicts"
-"No fixed strategy on fighting PKK yet"
-"Visas must be mutually removed"
Üst düzey kaynaklar: İsrail Cumhurbaşkanı Herzog 9-10 Mart tarihlerinde Türkiye’ye geliyor. İsrail Dışişleri ve Enerji Bakanlarının da Antalya Diplomasi Forumuna katılmak üzere Türkiye’de olacak
NEW-Turkish diplomatic sources say there is no concretized decision yet on holding the Erdoğan-Assad talks in Moscow
Our article mentioned the plans & consideration to do so according to a source
It is to be seen in the upcoming period upon which location the actors will decide
In light of recent tensions between the two neighbour countries, experts told Daily Sabah that
#Greece
is using its old game of rallying the EU against
#Turkey
and creating conflict rhetoric in the east Med
With insights of
@MesutCasin
&
@nihataliozcan
NEW - Diplomatic relations between Turkey, Egypt were raised to ambassador level
Turkey has nominated Salih Mutlu Şen as the Ambassador to Cairo, and Egypt has nominated Amr Elhamamy as the Ankara Ambassador
مصر وتركيا تُعلنان عن رفع علاقاتهما الدبلوماسية إلى مستوى السفراء بترشيح مصر للسفير عمرو الحمامي سفيراً في أنقرة، وترشيح تركيا للسفير صالح موتلو شن سفيراً بالقاهرة. ترفيع مستوى العلاقات الدبلوماسية يهدف إلى عودة العلاقات إلى طبيعتها تحقيقاً لمصلحة الشعبين الشقيقين
@MFATurkiyeAR
NEW - Russia’s Wagner group is preparing to send another 300 Syrian fighters from the Assad regime-controlled Deir el-Zour to fight alongside Libyan warlord Haftar, security sources on the ground tell Daily Sabah
Antifa, a group with suspected ties to various terrorist organizations and presence in the Syrian civil war, shares similar ideological ground, tools with the PKK to achieve its ultimate goals