On June 13, 2016, Director-General of the Department of West Asian and North African Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Deng Li and Director-General for Asia-Pacific Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Ersin Erçin of Turkey co-hosted the group consultation on bilateral relations of the fourth meeting of the Joint Working Group of the two Foreign Ministries. Both sides restructured China-Turkey relations and the current development situation of bilateral cooperation and exchanged in-depth views on promoting China-Turkey cooperation in various fields in the next stage.