Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held separate phone calls with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on April 13 to discuss efforts to end the conflict in Middle East, Turkish diplomatic sources said.
According to the sources, the talks focused on the latest stage of the U.S.-Iran conflict and diplomatic efforts to contain its regional fallout.
Türkiye has kept up contacts with multiple regional and international actors in recent weeks as it pushes for de-escalation and a broader return to negotiations.
The calls came after direct talks between U.S. and Iranian officials in Islamabad over the weekend ended without an agreement.
The negotiations, the highest-level contact between Washington and Tehran in decades, failed to produce a deal despite 21 hours of talks.
Those talks followed a two-week ceasefire announced on April 8 with Pakistani mediation, but the diplomatic process remains fragile.
On April 13, U.S. President Donald Trump said the American military had begun a blockade of Iranian ports to pressure Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and accept a deal, a step that raised fresh fears of renewed escalation and wider economic disruption.
