This was announced to reporters by a senior State Department official.

“Both the Secretary of State and Turkish officials, including Foreign Minister Cavusoglu and President Erdogan, would like this to work.

The result did not work out.

It didn’t work, because the schedule of President Erdogan changed and could not meet the parameters that we laid in the basis of the visit of the Secretary of State, ”the diplomat said at a briefing in Istanbul.

Earlier it was reported about Pompeo's plans to meet in Istanbul with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and Apostolic Nuncio (Vatican Ambassador) Paul Russell.