Foreign Ministry

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said work to send the Mecca Agreement to the Turkish parliament had been completed and the agreement would be submitted as soon as possible. He had presented the matter to the President the previous day.…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the Black Sea must never be allowed to turn into a new conflict front.…

The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned in the strongest terms Israel's resumption of work on the so-called Sufa 53 line in Syria's Quneitra province and its erosion of the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement.…

Justice Minister Akın Gürlek announced that 294 people were extradited to Türkiye in the first nine months of 2026. Of them, 137 were brought from Georgia and 67 from Germany.…

The Turkish Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Houthis' attack on civilian infrastructure serving the Prophet's Mosque in Medina and said the attacks must stop immediately.…

1,143 Israelis entered Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot under Israeli police protection and performed religious rituals in its courtyards. The Foreign Ministry, AK Party Spokesperson Ömer Çelik and Presidency Communications Director Burhanettin Duran condemned the move.…

Türkiye and Syria reached an agreement to reopen the Nusaybin-Qamishli border gate, which had been closed for 14 years. The gate is expected to open by the end of the year.…

A third secretary from the Foreign Ministry rejected Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's accusations against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the United Nations General Assembly. Communications Director Burhanettin Duran also called the remarks 'insolent and vile'.…

The Centre for Combating Disinformation announced that a text concerning Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, published using the Foreign Ministry emblem, is fake and does not appear on official channels.…

Following attacks the Houthis claimed on Riyadh and Red Sea energy facilities on Sept. 19, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan cited alliance duties in the Mecca Alliance, stating military needs in technical areas could be met. The US State Department warned the conflict could escalate rapidly.…

Arab Coalition Spokesperson Brigadier General Turki al-Malki reported that a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis toward Riyadh on Saturday morning was destroyed by air defenses. Türkiye's Foreign Ministry had previously condemned an attempted drone attack targeting Mecca; the Houthis denied such an attempt.…

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, speaking on NTV, described comments that the Mecca Alliance "remained on paper" as an effort to "discredit" it. Fidan said they were assigned to set up a joint planning group for Syrian dossiers, and stated no concrete step was taken in the disarmament process in northern Iraq.…