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As everyone in Greece has their attention focused on the cabinet reshuffle that was announced last night, not to mention the whole broadcasting license affair, our region is sinking deeper and deeper into uncertainty and chaos with every passing day.

Turkey's economy fares better than the world economy and outperforms Europe, despite many neighborhood risks, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, again stressing that interest rates must be cut further to boost investments.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said he cannot comprehend Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's remarks over the security situation in Germany.

"[I] cannot comprehend the comments made by Erdoğan about the security situation in Germany," Germany's Deutsche Welle quoted Steinmeier as saying on Nov. 3. 

During the cabinet meeting presided over by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan earlier this week, the reinstatement of capital punishment was among the key issues. He looked in the face of cabinet ministers and asked: "What will happen for my 241 martyrs [killed during the military coup attempt]? Will those who killed them not give an account of it?" 

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has expressed "regret" that a prosecutor who is facing charges over Gülenist links was appointed to probe daily Cumhuriyet's writers and executives for alleged ties to the movement, which is widely believed to have staged the coup attempt on July 15.
 

Jailed Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan has called on Europe to show solidarity and support to imprisoned writers and journalists in Turkey. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Nov. 3 over her criticism of the detention of daily Cumhuriyet journalists, saying "Germany harbors terrorism."

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has advised Muslims "not to lock women up" in comments made in Istanbul at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on women's roles.

"The logic that believes women should only be at home, is wrong," Erdoğan said Nov. 2, adding that "a strong nation cannot be built based on that logic." 

The Council of Europe will give a press freedom award to Turkish daily Cumhuriyet journalists and the newspaper itself, as a part of the program of the fifth World Forum for Democracy, scheduled to be held between Nov. 7 and 9. 

Every new day adds fresh validation to the adage that "Turkey is fun unless you have to live in it." In one recent speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described himself as an enemy of interest rates "because interest rates are a means of abuse."