[AnNahar] Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was heading to Switzerland...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
on Thursday after having to call off a campaign appearance amongst diaspora voters, in a bitter row between Ankara and Europe.
Cavusoglu will meet with his Swiss counterpart Didier Burkhalter during his visit, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
"In addition to discussing bilateral relations, the minister and Burkhalter plan to discuss current regional and international issues," the ministry said.
Cavusoglu will then meet members of the Turkish Swiss community at
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's embassy in Bern, the ministry added.
The visit comes after the Swiss government rejected a request from Zurich authorities to cancel a previously planned visit by the minister earlier this month, after the canton's security front man warned that a rally he was due to attend could be hit by "heavy demonstrations".
However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
the organisers cancelled the event after the hotel they had booked refused to host it.
Swiss police on March 10 also blocked a rally in the northern canton of Argau supporting a "yes" vote in the referendum.
On April 16, Turks will decide whether to approve constitutional changes that would axe the role of prime minister and could see Erdogan in power until 2029.