“He called me 5 times till the morning and we have had several phone dialogues since then”, Çavuşoğlu praised the support offered by his Iranian counterpart.
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Turkey has also asked Athens to return eight suspected coup-plotters who fled Turkey in a helicopter, just after the coup was quashed.
In the wake of the failed takeover, the government has conducted massive arrest campaigns, detaining thousands of individuals from the military, schools and universities, health services and the media.
“Let’s fight against the terrorist group together, so that we can clear it out as soon as possible”, Cavusolgu said, adding that otherwise IS will continue to expand and spread into other countries.
Turkish officials could not confirm reports that Ugurlu was seeking asylum in the United States.
Mr Cavusoglu told Turkish private broadcaster NTV the deadline for Turkish diplomats recalled to Ankara as part of investigations into the attempted coup expired on Thursday. Talented people, with whom I had an excellent working relationship. Çavuşoğlu had previously said around 300 members of the Foreign Ministry have been suspended since the coup plot, including two ambassadors.
Two civil servants based in Bangladesh, meanwhile, are understood to have travelled to NY.
The foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran agreed Friday to boost trade relations and pledged greater cooperation on resolving the Syria crisis despite their divergences on the issue.
When asked, a State Department official did not indicate that the US position has changed regarding Gulen’s extradition.
Ankara accuses him of having links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric it claims masterminded the botched coup attempt.
That has chilled relations with Washington and the European Union, bringing repeated Turkish warnings about an EU deal to stem the flow of migrants.
Erdogan and Putin in their talks revived a plan for a gas pipeline project, known as TurkStream, meant to supply Turkey with additional volumes of Russian gas and increase deliveries to Europe in the future.
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U.S. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said it was continuing to review the case. He was accused of having ties with the Gulen movement, which Ankara blames for instigating the coup.
