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The defense spending bill passed by the US Senate bans F-35 delivery to Turkey and underlines the necessity of imposing sanctions against the country over its purchase of S-400 missile system from Russia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Ambassador Satterfield after the US House recognized the Armenian Genocide and approved a bill on sanctions against Turkey over its military operation in Syria.

Responding to the 2019 Progress Report on Turkey released by the EU, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Kaymakçı has said, “Criticisms about the functioning of judiciary cannot be accepted. Important steps are being taken in the field of judiciary.”

The General Affairs Council of the EU has stated, “Turkey has been moving further away from the EU. No further chapters can be considered for opening.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey has referred to the attitude of the EU as “hypocrisy and inconsistency”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement about the Hakan Atilla case concluded in the US. The ministry qualified the verdict as “an unfair and unfortunate development”.

US Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy in Ankara Kosnett has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the mutual suspension of visa services between Turkey and the US.

In its statement issued regarding the KRG referendum, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said, “The referendum results are null and void. We don’t recognize this attempt that lacks all sorts of legal base and legitimacy”.

In the wake of Presidential bodyguards assaulting protesters in the US, Turkey has sent diplomatic note to the US on the grounds that the police stopping the bodyguards “caused a security weakness”.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has claimed that there are “false information and definition” in Trump’s April 24 statement, and this is caused by “information pollution generated by means of propaganda methods by some radical Armenian groups in years”.

Turkey has defended Syria’s territorial integrity and the need for a secular framework from the beginning, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Cavuşoğlu

Opposition in Germany has criticized that Merkel government has remained silent on ambassador of Germany being summoned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the song making fun of President Erdoğan.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a diplomatic note to embassies as to ambassadors monitoring the case hearing Can Dündar and Erdem Gül.