The European Parliament's women's rights committee approved an amendment to the EU's 2026 budget calling for funding for a monument to rape victims of Türkiye's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Türkiye's foreign ministry called the plan an insult to its armed forces, said the 1974 operation prevented the "extermination" of Turkish Cypriots, and accused Brussels of becoming a tool of the Greek Cypriot side.
Greece's embassy in Ankara lodged a formal protest against Türkiye's two newly declared marine national parks, arguing their boundaries have no legal effect where they extend beyond Turkish territorial waters into areas Athens regards as part of the Greek continental shelf. The parks, declared by presidential decree in August, cover waters near the islands of Lemnos, Samothrace and Kastellorizo, reopening a dispute the two NATO allies had tried to ease with a 2023 friendship declaration.
Cemil Bayık, a senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), warned that the peace process with Ankara will stall unless Türkiye clarifies the legal status of imprisoned founder Abdullah Öcalan and other senior figures, not only the terms for laying down arms. Sources close to the ruling party have ruled out giving Öcalan, held on İmralı island since 1999, formal standing on the disarmament committee overseeing the process, though he could still advise it.
Annual consumer price growth in Türkiye slowed to 31.5% in August from 31.8% in July, statistics agency TÜİK said, the third consecutive monthly easing and a sign the central bank's 37% policy rate is starting to bite. The cooling keeps alive market expectations that the central bank could resume interest rate cuts later this year.
Exit polls put Alternative for Germany at 44.2% in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election, more than double the 17.4% won by Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats and the party's strongest regional result yet. AfD still falls three seats short of the 42 needed for an outright majority, and every mainstream party maintains a "firewall" refusing to govern with it, but a win of this scale intensifies pressure on that policy ahead of national elections.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for over three hours on Saturday, after which Putin ordered a 72-hour halt to strikes on Kyiv from midnight. The envoys then travelled overland to Kyiv, where they met President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday in their first visit to the Ukrainian capital since Donald Trump returned to office. Zelensky had said Ukraine would hold off hitting Moscow through Monday in return, but the envoys announced no breakthrough on a wider settlement.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard kept firing on US Navy vessels near the strait, while US forces struck more Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island and the port of Jask, extending Friday's exchange in which US Central Command destroyed one Iranian tanker and disabled two others after Iranian missiles hit two US warships. Shipping tracker Kpler recorded as few as five to eleven vessels crossing the strait on some days this week, down from a ten-day average of 13, in a chokepoint that carried roughly 20 million barrels a day before the war; Brent crude has climbed to $96 a barrel from about $70.
A Manila court ordered Duterte's arrest on Friday over a 2024 broadcast in which she said she would have President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife and a former House speaker killed if she herself were killed first. She posted 360,000 pesos ($5,740) bail on Saturday and denies making a real threat; a conviction on any of the three grave-threats counts could bar her from ever holding public office again, including a widely expected 2028 presidential run.