Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is probably one of the world's busiest men. In other words, it's not easy for a journalist to have a chance for a long interview with him. That is why I was pleased last weekend to get a call from his media adviser inviting me to join Davutoğlu's official trip to the Netherlands. The minister would stay in the Dutch capital only for 12 hours for an international summit, I was told, before flying to Kyrgyzstan for another meeting. But he would have free time on the plane.
I accepted, knowing that "plane interviews" have become a phenomenon in Turkish journalism. The president, the prime minister or the foreign minister often take journalists with them, who are not necessarily friendly but at least objective in their eyes, and give them exclusive remarks.
