Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed efforts to isolate Turkey from a possible operation on the Iraqi city of Mosul against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Greece's political asylum commission on Oct. 11 rejected the asylum application of another four of eight coup-plotting soldiers who escaped to the country after Turkey's failed coup attempt of July 15, leaving just one soldier to be reviewed for the process.
In late September, the commission rejected the asylum application of three soldiers.

Turkey has one official and one shadow prime minister, the head of the main opposition has said, declaring Binali Yıldırım to be the former and Energy Minister Berat Albayrak - who is also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan - to be the latter. 

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ is scheduled to visit the United States in order to discuss the issue of extradition and arrest of U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is believed to have orchestrated the failed July 15 coup. 

Greece has rejected asylum requests from seven of eight Turkish soldiers who fled there after an abortive coup attempt against President Tayyip Erdogan in July, their lawyer said on Tuesday.

The eight Turkish soldiers flew a military helicopter into northern Greece on July 16, hours after a coup attempt by elements of the military in Turkey started unraveling.

The public must be the final arbiter of whether Turkey shifts to an executive presidential system in a referendum, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli has suggested, even while expressing his support for the current parliamentary system.

An indictment prepared by a local chief public prosecutor's office in Istanbul has demanded up to two years in prison for main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on charges of "overtly insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's son in remarks made two years ago. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appealed against German prosecutors' decision to drop an investigation into a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about him.

German prosecutors previously said they were dropping the case against Jan Böhmermann, citing insufficient evidence that he had committed any crime.

Russia and Turkey have signed an intergovernmental agreement to build the Turkish Stream pipeline, Anadolu Agency reports.

The move coincides with a visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country's Energy Minister to Turkey.

The deal for a second pipeline to carry Russian natural gas to Turkey under the Black Sea was signed on Oct. 10 in Istanbul.