 He said he retired in March due to the mandatory retirement age for civil servants, and has kept advising Davutoglu afterwards informally.As a part of his senior advisory duty to former prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, he busily traveled across the Europe and USA and met with academicians, journalists, politicians and bureaucrats for better communication purposes that would lead to solutions to the regional problems, in which Turkey clearly plays a crucial role.Since then, he has been sustaining the same mission by attending lectures, conferences, symposiums and governmental panels as an invited guest speaker.