Whatever Mr Davutoglu's persuasive powers, this reorientation could not have happened without dramatic changes in Turkey.
Mr Davutoglu agrees that decades-old peace talks between Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot leaders should not be open-ended.
Mr Davutoglu said their main objective was to "protect the innocent civilians of Syria".
Mr Erdogan's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has a policy of no disputes with the neighbours.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed Turkey would spare no effort in protecting diplomatic facilities.
Mr Davutoglu says Mr Maliki's actions could unleash a sectarian war in the region.
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But Mr Davutoglu told me that Turkey wanted greater US attention to the crisis around its borders.
Clinton spoke by phone with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and with U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone, Ms. Nuland said.
Mr Davutoglu likes to insist that this policy chimes perfectly with Western goals.
Mr Davutoglu is again lobbying to ensure that all Iraqi groups take part in the parliamentary election in January 2010.
Mr Davutoglu has played a key role (and, incidentally, blunted Iranian influence) in forging alliances between Shia and Sunni factions.
The foreign minister of neighbouring Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu, dismissed Mr Assad's remarks as "repetitions of what he's said all along".
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"We are fighting against terrorist groups, terrorist actions in a very multi-dimensional approach, " Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu tells the BBC.
Now Mr Davutoglu's secular critics have a new accusation: that he is forging a Sunni block to counter Iran's influence.
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Davutoglu said his country would hold those responsible for the bombings but had no immediate plans to involve its NATO allies.
Mr Davutoglu is hopeful, for example, that the Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul will soon be reopened.
Mr Davutoglu suggests that they are merely playing to their respective electorates.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said this month that the missile batteries will stay only as long as there is a threat.
This week Mr Davutoglu took aim at the European Union and Cyprus.
Gurcan Balik, an adviser to Mr Davutoglu, chose to vent over Twitter.
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The timing of the blasts comes as momentum toward a resolution of the Syrian issue has grown, said Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, AA reported.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a "humanitarian tragedy" was taking place in Syria, and he called on the UN Security Council to act.
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Rather, it enhances its appeal as a member, says Mr Davutoglu.
This plan came a few days after Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, became the first Turkish minister to set foot in the Iraqi Kurds' semi-independent state.
Mr Davutoglu said Turkey would be "careful" in its approach, and stressed that Israeli trade restrictions on the Gaza Strip "should be eliminated once and for all".
"If some countries acted in a hostile way against our citizens' right to life, allow us to reserve our right to make a statement, " Mr Davutoglu said.
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Some credit is due to Mr Davutoglu, who was a foreign-policy adviser to the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for seven years before becoming foreign minister in May.
This dogged diplomatic pragmatism has been ardently pursued by the foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, an ebullient professor of international relations who had long advised Mr Erdogan before his appointment in May.
Those are second-term foreign policy priorities for President Barack Obama, and Kerry tried to advance them in meetings with Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, and the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.
Earlier, in Istanbul, Mr Kerry said after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that he saw Turkey as an "important contributor" to efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.
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