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Turkish minister of customs and trade said on Oct. 3 that Turkey and Azerbaijan should work to increase the foreign trade volume between the two countries.

Cenap A?ç?'s remarks came at the first meeting of Turkey-Azerbaijan Joint Customs Committee held in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Ali Riza Alaboyun has said Turkey will not face any problem in gas deliveries from Russia this winter.

?I do not expect any problems during winter,? Alaboyun said during an Oct. 3 press meeting in Istanbul, citing contractual rights.

Hasan Gürsoy opened the George Seferis Art Gallery in Urla, near Smyrna in Turkey, in honor of the Greek Nobel laureate. As a young boy, Seferis lived in the region until the age of 14 years, so when Gürsoy and his partners decided to open their gallery they decided to recognize the great Greek poet and thus pay tribute to the shared Greek-Turkish cultural past.

A Turkish prosecutor has stirred controversy by posing for a photo with an international footballer he has released after brief detention.

Turkish football club Trabzonspor's Guinea international midfielder Kevin Constant was detained on Oct. 3 at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport as he was boarding a flight to the French city of Nice.

Suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abducted two Turkish soldiers in eastern Turkey amid a flare-up of violence between militants and security forces, the army said Oct. 3. 

A Turkish woman was killed and her male partner badly wounded with the same bullet in a suicide attempt in Istanbul's best known shopping street on Oct. 2.

The Iranian intelligence service stepped in for the release of Turkish workers kidnapped in Iraq. The Turkish National Intelligence Service (M?T) had contacted Tehran and prominent Shiite leaders with leverage on Shiite militias for help in the workers' case.

I have come across this famous quote ?Where law ends, tyranny begins,? carved on a wall at Capitol Hill in Des Moines, Iowa a few weeks ago. (The version at the Capitol Hill was attributed to William Pitt, a famous British statesman but it?s known that the quote originally belongs to British philosopher John Locke.)

The driver of a bus that rammed into a bus stop on a busy street in Ankara, killing 12 people, was arrested by a local court on Oct. 2. 

E.A. was arrested following the accident in the capital's Dikimevi neighborhood.

Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has said the flow of Syrian migrants is now seen as Europe?s problem, speaking at a rally in Lyon province of France on Oct. 1.