Turkey’s foreign minister Hakan Fidan met with Donald Trump’s co-in-law Massad Boulos in Cairo, the Turkish ministry (@TC_Disisleri) said in a tweet on June 21.

Fidan was in Cairo during June 20-21 to attend the fourth meeting of the top diplomats of Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Family firm

US President Trump has five children from three marriages. Donald Jr (born in 1977), Ivanka (1981) and Eric (1984) are from his marriage to first wife Ivana. Tiffany (1993) is from Trump’s marriage to second wife Marla Maples. Barron (2006) is the son of Trump and current wife and US First Lady Melania.

The first three children, as well as Ivanka’s Jewish husband Jared Kushner, have served or serve official or unofficial roles within the US government.

Massad Boulos (@US_SrAdvisorAF) is a Lebanese-born billionaire. His son, Michael, is married to Tiffany Trump. After Trump in April 2025 appointed him as the US senior advisor for Arab and African affairs, Massad quickly emerged as the US president’s premier fixer in the region.

His unique portfolio blends deep family roots in Lebanese sectarian politics with commercial leverage.

Talking Libya

Speaking to reporters in Cairo, Fidan confirmed that Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the US held multilateral talks specifically aimed at finding “certain points of consensus” regarding Libya.

Libya remains a critical “theatre” for Turkey, which has deployed military assets and signed sweeping maritime agreements with the Tripoli-based administration to secure long-term energy and construction concessions.

Photos: From left to right, Fidan, his Saudi counterpart, Egyptian counterpart and Massad Boulos (Credit: @US_SrAdvisorAF).

Boulos, meanwhile, wrote in a tweet that he held a group meeting with Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian foreign ministers.

“We also reaffirmed our cooperation in support of Libya’s unification, sovereignty and long-term stability,” he wrote.

Tacky diplomacy complete with superyachts

In August 2025, Tiffany Trump shared photos on her Instagram account with her husband while they were holidaying on the French Riviera aboard an ultra-luxury superyacht.

Photo: Tiffany Trump (left) and Michael Boulos (right) on a yacht owned by Ruya and Ercument Bayegan.

Later on, The New York Times revealed that the vessel belonged to Ruya and Ercument, the owners of BGN International, a company with substantial commercial interests in expanding Libyan crude exports.

Photo: Ercument Bayegan (left) and Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right).

BGN is the energy and commodities trading arm of the Bayegan Group, an industrial dynasty founded in Turkey in 1945. Bayegan is Turkey's largest independent importer of polymers and petrochemical raw materials.

BGN is anchored primarily through trading hubs in Dubai, Switzerland and Istanbul, with a commercial network spanning over 23 global locations (including Rotterdam, Houston and Singapore). It is led by Ruya Bayegan, who engineered its expansion from a regional player into an asset-backed global trader.

The company operates chartered fleets and storage infrastructure under exclusive supply contracts for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), ammonia, crude oil and refined petroleum products.