Turkey

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson arrived in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Sept. 26 as a part of his two-day trip to Turkey to visit Syrian refugees, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkey's markets and currency were seeking recovery after shares tumbled 4 percent and bonds and the Turkish Lira weakened sharply on Sept. 26, the first trading day after Moody's cut its credit rating to "junk," raising risks of an outflow of foreign funds and a squeeze on external borrowing.

Turkish shares tumbled 4 percent while bonds and the lira also weakened sharply on Sept. 26 after ratings agency Moody's cut Turkey's sovereign rating to "junk," triggering fears of an outflow of foreign funds.

Bulgaria is not inclined to allow the deployment of joint border police units with Serbia to its border with Turkey, a recent government decision shows.

Last week Bulgaria approved an agreement for bilateral police cooperation that provides for the establishment of joint patrols on the common border with Serbia.

Four soldiers were killed and six others were injured on Sept. 26 in an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attack in the Derik district of the southeastern province of Mardin, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders were to come together on Sept. 26 with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the U.N.

İsmail Kahraman, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) member and Parliament Speaker, recently stated that "the Sultan Abdulhamid II period is a mariner's compass to give us direction and enlighten our future." He was speaking on the occasion of the Symposium for the Commemoration of the Birth of Abdulhamid II last week. 

EU member countries are largely responsible for the stagnation in Turkey's accession process, according to British MP Fabian Hamilton, who also drew attention to the demographic benefits of Turkey for Europe's future. 

'Müthiş Bir Film,' a love letter to filmmaking, a nostalgic and comedic look at the film industry half a century ago in Turkey, takes place in the 1960s, following two friends' quest to fulfill their childhood fantasy of making a film.

fThe cliché used in such cases is usually "the rise and fall." But this falls short in the case of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who now amounts to one of the major problems in Turkey-U.S. relations, under the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) rule.