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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said there may be potential for back-channel talks between the United States and Iran to ease tensions as a regional conflict rages, underscoring Ankara’s emerging role as a mediator and its ongoing efforts to facilitate diplomacy in a volatile Middle East.
Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT) since 2010, has been appointed as the country's new foreign minister. Fidan, who has engaged in back-channel diplomacy with allies and foes across the globe, has been a confidant of President Erdogan and played a prominent role in Turkey's fight against Syrian Kurdish groups. He has also been credited for a guarded approach to the Gulen movement and has been involved in multiple Israeli, Iranian, and Russian spy ring busts.