Turkish FM to appear at EU’s Gymnich meeting again

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Turkey’s foreign minister is set to attend the European Union member states’ informal Gymnich meetings, after Ankara has long urged Brussels to invite it to the foreign policy meetings.

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will attend the meeting on March 6-7, a written statement issued by the ministry said on March 5.

Ankara has long called on the EU to “make visible” the dialogue between Ankara and Brussels by inviting Turkish leaders to EU meetings and taking them into EU family photographs.

The union should “find practical formulas to invite Turkish leaders to EU meetings to take part in family photos of the union in a way visible to the public,” Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozkır said on Dec. 8.