Turkey

European Commission published its report on the enlargement process where it assesses where the countries of the Western Balkans and Turkey stand in preparing to meet EU membership requirements, and sets out what needs to be done to address the remaining challenges.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has maintained that the Nov. 1 snap elections have ushered in four years of stability and called for reforms, including the making of a new constitution.

An Istanbul court has accepted an indictment against 122 suspects, including U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, former police chief Yurt Atayün and Emre Uslu, within the investigation into misconduct in a past probe, which led to various surveillance activities against hundreds of leading lawmakers, academics and journalists.

A dead body of a Syrian man was found on a rocky shore of Turkey's resort town of Bodrum, thought to be one of the thousands of migrants who set sail in the Aegean Sea in order to reach Europe for a better life. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) expects to maintain its pace of investment in Turkey at about $1.7 billion to $1.8 billion in 2015 and 2016.

In an interview with Anadolu Agency on Nov. 9, EBRD Turkey director Jean-Patrick Marquet said the bank had invested more than $6 billion in Turkey in the past six years, which it aimed to continue.

Turkish police have detained 18 militants suspected of recruiting jihadists for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra in anti-terror operations in Turkey's central Anatolian Konya province. 

Anti-terror police in Konya have launched simultaneous operations on 18 addresses linked to al-Nusra on Nov. 10, after technical and physical surveillance of suspects. 

Canada will soon discuss with Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey taking 25,000 Syrian refugees off their hands and resettling them in this country by year's end, the immigration minister said Nov. 9.

The EU enlargement process covering the Western Balkans and Turkey is key to strengthened economic and political stability in the region, the European Commission said on Tuesday as it adopted its annual Enlargement Package.

Freedom of the press and intellectual freedoms are personal redlines, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu told CNN International's Christiane Amanpour on Nov. 9, in response to a question over concerns of a crackdown on the press by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

United States President Barack Obama held phone conversations with top Turkish officials late Nov. 9 to discuss the agenda of the upcoming G-20 Summit that will be held in Turkey and to exchange views on recent developments in Syria.