Turkish prosecutors submitted their final opinion on 26 September in the case against Bolu mayor Tanju Özcan, seeking between 69 and 217 years on charges of extortion, bribery and fraud involving local businesses and a charity. Özcan has been jailed pending trial since March and left the CHP in June after a court fight over the party's leadership; the next hearing is set for 19 October.
New Party lawmaker Zeynel Emre alleges that former minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya and her husband bought shares in shipbuilder Özata Denizcilik for 63.4 million lira in April and sold them for 1.34 billion lira in September, just before regulators began winding down 131 investment funds holding roughly $18 billion from over 455,000 investors. Neither Kaya nor the government has yet answered the allegation.
Turkish authorities detained journalist Ali Tarakcı on 26 September and a court blocked his X account over a 23 September post predicting that "a very important minister will resign on Friday", a resignation that never happened. Prosecutors invoked the anti-disinformation law, Article 217/A, which criminalises spreading false information meant to cause public fear.
President Erdoğan told the closing of the MÜSİAD EXPO trade fair in Istanbul on 26 September that the number of Turkish exporting companies has grown from 33,000 in 2002 to 168,000 last year, part of what he called 24 consecutive quarters of economic growth. He pointed to Türkiye's 2025 per capita income of $18,103 as evidence the economy, now the world's 16th largest, can withstand global shocks.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a framework that could suspend the EU's right to asylum for a limited time, after roughly 82,000 migrants have entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta from Morocco since the more than 70,000 who crossed on 30-31 July. The UN refugee agency and rights groups warn the move could enable illegal pushbacks; Greece and Poland have previously suspended asylum processing temporarily during past surges.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met Russia's Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on 26 September, their first direct talks since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Wadephul called on Moscow to abandon its "dangerous path of escalation" toward Europe and NATO; Lavrov rejected the description and accused Germany of becoming Ukraine's main military sponsor.
The European Commission announced more than 710 million euros in humanitarian aid on 27 September, with the largest share, 380 million euros, going to migration protection and voluntary return programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. The package also covers food insecurity, the Ebola response in DR Congo, and support for people affected by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Investigating judges have referred eleven young men to trial for the November 2023 killing of 16-year-old Thomas Perotto in the village of Crépol, ruling that racist statements against "the white race and the French nation" count as an aggravating circumstance. Prosecutors in Valence had twice rejected that reading, calling the evidence too thin to pin on named suspects; the trial itself is not expected before autumn 2027.
President Trump said on 26 September he rejects a seven-day roadmap Iran submitted through Qatar to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The roadmap included lifting the US naval blockade, suspending sanctions on Iranian oil and unfreezing about $12 billion in assets. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has only seen an "initial reaction" from Trump and is waiting for a formal response through mediators.
Venezuela's interim government released 39 political prisoners between 25 and 26 September, including eight women held on "narco-terrorism" charges and six people accused over a 2020 coup attempt against former president Nicolás Maduro, whom a US military raid removed to the United States in January. Rights group Foro Penal says 344 political prisoners remained as of 18 September, down from 391 a month earlier.
Stockholm police confirmed on Friday, 25 September, five active preliminary investigations into suspected election fraud in Stockholm city, Sigtuna and Nacka, two of them involving alleged vote-buying, on top of the already-known Dalarna probe into elected Left Party MP Mohamed Abdukardir Ali. The investigations come days before parliament convenes on 28 September and add fresh doubt over the left bloc's razor-thin one-seat majority.