NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen will pay a visit to Turkey next Monday, Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Rasmussen is scheduled to meet Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul expected to attend the meeting, Xinhua reported according to statement.
The two sides will discuss issues on the agenda of an informal meeting of NATO members' foreign ministers due on April 14-15, according to the statement.The visit came as NATO took full command and control of military operations in Libya from the United States on Thursday with an elusive end game for the military campaigns.
The only Islamic country in NATO, Turkey has repeatedly voiced its opposition since West-led air strikes began. However, after days of negotiation, all NATO member states, including Turkey, agreed to take over command of the military operations against Libya.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu nevertheless stressed on several occasions the NATO operations should be limited to protecting civilians and that Turkey would never point a gun at Libya, worrying about finding in Libya another Afghanistan or Iraq war.
Erdogan told a press conference when visiting London on Thursday that he was also against the idea of arming Libyan rebels, saying that could "create an environment which could be conducive to terrorism."
Turkey will have a seat at the newly formed International Contact Group on Libya, British Prime Minister David Cameron told the same press conference. The new Contact Group was agreed at the London Conference on Libya on Tuesday.