During a visit to the port of Beirut on 8 August 2020, after the double explosion that devastated it, the Turkish Foreign Minister said that President Reycep Tayyip Erdogan wanted to give Turkish nationality to any Turkmen person who requests it. Mevlut Cavusoglu said: ""We also stand in solidarity with our relatives, the Turks and Turkmen in Lebanon and around the world. We will grant Turkish citizenship to our brothers insofar as they claim to be Turks and Turkmen and express their desire to become citizens"". It is not known how many stateless people there are among the Turkmen community in Lebanon today, but given the complexity and length of the Lebanese administrative procedures to obtain Lebanese citizenship, it is more than likely that they will turn to Turkish citizenship.