NKARA (RFE/RL)-Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu opened on Friday consultations with his country's top political leaders on the draft agreements envisaging the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.

Turkey's parliament will not ratify the normalization agreements with Armenia unless international efforts to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict yield a breakthrough that favours Azerbaijan, according to Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

ISTANBUL (Milliyet Daily News)-Turkey's foreign minister has said he regrets the defense the Turkish state gave at the European Court of Human Rights in a case concerning murdered journalist Hrant Dink.

Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has denied the existence of any long-lasting diplomatic crisis with the United States, either currently or in the past, saying the two countries' strategic priorities and approaches actually overlap.