He added that the progress in bilateral relations with Egypt and President El-Sisi's historic visit to Turkey have all played a great role in reaching this ‎stage of Turkish relations with the Arab region and Arab countries.‎ 

Ambassador Mutlu Şen's exclusive statement coincides with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan's visit to Cairo on 10 September to participate at the 162nd meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the League of Arab States.

Moreover, the Turkish minister will deliver a speech as a guest of honour before the council and hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts.

Mutlu Şen said Egypt is a leading member of the AL ‎and a hosting country. It always plays a key role and constitutes the backbone of security and stability among the Arab ‎countries and the whole region.

“The Foreign Minister of Turkey Hakan Fidan will address the Council of Foreign Ministers at the opening session. This marks a historic moment because, from our perspective, our ‎relations with the Arab countries within the Arab League are of high importance," Mutlu Şen noted.

"We are keen ‎on working with the AL members and Egypt to further advance our positive and productive agenda. It's an ‎agenda where the Arab League acts as a friend; we work to develop our relations and cooperation to benefit Turkey and the Arab nations in ‎economy, culture, information, and political issues,” he added.

“Our ‎foreign minister will emphasize in his speech the importance we attach and the keenness that we ‎have towards marking this event as the beginning of a new comprehensive and substantive ‎cooperation and solidarity with the Arab League,” Mutlu Şen highlighted.

“Solidarity is of ‎course the most important agenda the Arab League has. We have it in our foreign policy towards ‎the situation in Gaza particularly, and in Palestine in general. ‎We fully share the position of the Arab countries towards Palestine and the ongoing Israeli war in Gaza which displaced Gaza’s ‎whole population, caused the death of around 50,000 brothers and sisters, and destroyed the city." Mutlu Şen emphasized.

"Minister Fidan will emphasize bilateral relations, the new page and ‎beginning, a promising, substantive, and mutually beneficial beginning in the spirit of cooperation ‎and solidarity. He will touch on the question of Palestine and how we can work together with the Arab ‎League and the Arab countries to advance our ‎common cause, which is saving the lives and dignity of the Palestinians and work ‎relentlessly on diplomatic and political fronts to the realization of the two-state solution, where our Palestinian brothers and sisters will ‎live under their state on the borders of 4 June 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital," he continued.

"We have certain mechanisms in place that we have followed to realize cooperation ‎between Turkey, the Arab League, and economy ministers. We want to reactivate all these ‎mechanisms and continue within the existing format in the work of the Arab ‎League. Of course, there will be other areas of cooperation with the Arab League,‎" the ambassador affirmed.

Furthermore, he said the AL is a comprehensive, fully-fledged regional organization with many affiliated ‎institutions in different fields. So, we would like to restart and enhance our cooperation with as many of its institutions as possible.‎

Mutlu Şen also stated that the AL invites non-member states to certain high-level meetings.

"When we receive the invitations, of course, our wish is always to become an observer member of the Arab League. However, the organization currently does not have such a status," he concluded.