Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will hold an extraordinary congress on May 22 where Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will not seek a new mandate as party chairman.
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met at his Emiri Diwan office on Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and the accompanying delegation.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed that Turkey's draft constitution would guarantee secularism, after calls for a religious charter sparked controversy in the predominantly Muslim country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in a Turkish border province to meet Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as she works to ease tensions in the deal to tackle the migrant crisis.
Turkey will continue to strike back at Kurdish fighters of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday, despite growing pressure on Ankara to stop the shelling.
US Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria if a political settlement was not possible, amid uncertainty over scheduled peace talks.
