Foreign Minister Mevlud Cavusoglu held a phone call with his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil late Thursday.

Axar.az reports citing Daily Sabah that earlier the same day, Saudi Arabia ordered its citizens out of Lebanon amid skyrocketing tensions between their two governments.

A brief statement carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency called on all Saudis living in or visiting Lebanon to depart, and warned against travel to the country.

On Sunday, Bahrain -- an ally of Saudi Arabia -- ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon immediately, with the Bahraini Foreign Ministry issuing a travel advisory that cited "safety considerations."