Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The constitutional amendment package introducing a shift to a presidential system will be submitted to Turkey's parliament on Dec. 10, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, calling for the public to vote in favor of the change "for a stronger democracy." 

Turkey was demanding the extradition of the eight Turkish military men who fled to Greece following a failed coup in July, the spokesman of Turkey's Ministry for Foreign Affairs, ambassador Huseyin Muftuoglu, said Friday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed his gratitude to people who joined campaigns to shore up the struggling lira, but added that it was insufficient, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

"I appreciate my people's choice of converting their foreign currency into liras. But this is insufficient. I think people should stress this issue more," he said Dec. 9.   

Selahattin Demirtaş, one of the two jailed co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has said he did not insult President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader did by calling the head of state a "thief." 

Turkey's postal service (PTT) has announced that it has converted $172 million and 20 million euros of foreign exchange into Turkish Liras, in response to a call from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to boost the struggling currency. 

Turkey has criticized a decision by a Greek appeals court to reject an extradition request for five Turkish soldiers who fled to the country after the failed coup of July 15, repeating its call for the extradition of a total of eight Turkish military personnel. 

Fifty-one academics out of 87 who were issued detention warrants have been detained by police at Istanbul University over suspected links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, accused of orchestrating the July 15 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Turkish prosecutors on Dec. 9 ordered the detention of 87 people linked to Istanbul University as part of an ongoing operation targeting the Gülen movement, accused by Ankara of being behind the July 15 failed coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Bulgaria is one of the fourteen EU member states from which Turkey has received data on supporters of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish daily reports.

Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has used imams in a number of countries within and outside the EU to gather intelligence about Gülen followers and supporters, according to Hürriyet Daily News.

The border between Greece and Turkey separates two very different countries. And yet it is not fixed - it is porous, sometimes in motion and dangerous. Just as the Evros River changes course and the borderline, so the fates of people are determined by which side they find themselves on.