Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

One day after the Sept. 22 meeting between Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the CHP officially appealed to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of decree laws issued by the government since late July.

A commission set up by three political parties represented at parliament has agreed on a seven-article constitutional change, particularly on restructuring judicial bodies, in what they say is an attempt to enhance the independence of the judiciary and to clear it of Gülenist judges and prosecutors. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber who carried out the Aug. 20 attack on a wedding in the southeastern province of Gaziantep was a 14-year-old child wearing a jersey bearing the name of star football player Lionel Messi. 

Police chiefs from 40 Turkish provinces, along with a number of bureau chiefs, are to be suspended from their duties as part of a forthcoming decree law, expected to be launched with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's arrival in Turkey, aiming to clear Gülen-linked police chiefs from public posts, according to information obtained from sources. 

BELGRADE - Turkey's President Erdogan has accused the US of supplying arms to Kurds fighting against Islamic State in Syria. Erdogan equated the Kurdish forces with IS militants, and referred to previous cases when American weapons were seized by Islamists.

Turkey and the United States have become ensconced in a deadlock over two major issues, Turkey's demand for the extradition of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom the government accuses of staging the failed July 15 coup, and the approach to Syrian Kurdish fighters. 

The U.S.-led coalition needs to make a better concerted effort to "finish off" the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 23.        

NEW YORK - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic is on a visit to the US, during which he will take part in a UNGA session, speak at an annual conference organised by the Clinton Foundation and hold a series of bilateral meetings with state officials and businesspeople.

An Istanbul court ordered the arrest of prominent journalist Ahmet Altan on Sept. 23, after the former daily Taraf editor-in-chief was detained by police for a second time.

Altan was initially freed before dawn on Sept. 22 while the Istanbul court arrested his academic brother, Professor Mehmet Altan.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş broke his silence with this proclamation: "The threat of a coup is ongoing.