Recep Tayyip Erdogan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced his commitment to reinvigorate efforts for a new constitution, with the official reopening of the parliament scheduled for Oct. 1.

Türkiye's foreign minister Hakan Fidan said on a visit to Moscow on Aug. 31 that reviving a deal to ship Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea was "critical" for food security.

Fidan was in Moscow to prepare an informal summit between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi next week.

The hostile comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday marking Turkey's "Victory Day," the anniversary of the defeat of the Greek forces in Asia Minor in 1922, are indicative of the difficulties that exist by definition in Greek-Turkish relations.

Hundreds of fishermen are set to cast their diligently prepared nets into the sea as the four-and-a-half-month fishing ban draws to a close on the midnight of Aug. 31.

Greece said on Thursday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comments on the 1922 Greco-Turkish War were "counterproductive" and do not help relations between the two countries.

A much-anticipated meeting between Turkish and Russian presidents over the fate of the grain initiative will be held on Sept. 4 in the Russian resort city of Sochi, only days after the two sides' top diplomats, Hakan Fidan and Sergey Lavrov, had talks on the same issue as well as on other bilateral and regional matters in Moscow.

"Today, the Republic of Türkiye is much stronger and much more advanced than it was a quarter century, half a century, a century ago, with all its political, economic and military capabilities," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan said on Aug. 30. 

Erdoğan delivered a speech at the Victory Day Concert at the Presidential Complex.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will pay a two-day visit to Moscow on Aug. 31 to hold talks with his counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the resumption of the grain deal, as well as bilateral matters and regional developments.

A statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced that the working visit by Fidan will be held on Aug. 31 -Sept. 1.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan marked the Aug. 30 Victory Day with a message of congratulations, vowing to bolster the nation's strength through forthcoming initiatives.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) spokesperson Ömer Çelik has announced that the party's upcoming congress has been scheduled for Oct. 7.

"Strong evaluations will be conducted on Oct. 7," Çelik remarked.