Istanbul prosecutors have arrested 85 people and taken legal action against 207 in total, and ordered more than 130 investment funds holding some $20 billion liquidated, over a scheme that drew in roughly 500,000 investors on suspicion of market manipulation. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said five suspects, including a former AK Party deputy chair, have already returned profits deemed "unjust gains."
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli told his party's group in parliament on Tuesday that the ruling People's Alliance wants President Erdoğan to seek a third term, arguing Türkiye needs to keep its momentum amid global uncertainty. Erdoğan is barred by the constitution from running again unless parliament votes to call renewed elections, and the alliance does not control enough seats to do that alone.
Türkiye has reserved five areas of the central Aegean for military drills until October 27, which Ankara's own notice describes as search-and-rescue and environmental activity, and declared "null and void" a competing Greek notice for drills in the same waters this month. Athens insists only Greece may issue such notices inside the airspace it controls, keeping alive a sovereignty dispute that has simmered despite a recent thaw between the two governments.
A 15-year-old girl from a different school, wearing the uniform of her target school, stabbed students at a secondary school in Istanbul's Başakşehir district on Tuesday morning, killing one and wounding eight before being apprehended at the scene. Authorities suspended classes for two days and a court imposed a reporting ban while the investigation continues; officials say they have found no political motive.
Drones struck two commercial vessels in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone before dawn on Tuesday, sinking one; its crew remains missing as search and rescue continues. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev called the attack "absolutely unacceptable" and a "flagrant violation of maritime law," and the European Commission pledged solidarity with member states on NATO's eastern flank.
Federal prosecutors arrested August Hanning, 80, who led Germany's foreign intelligence service BND until 2005, along with his former chief of staff, on suspicion of obtaining and passing on state secrets. Investigators say Hanning kept receiving classified BND reports meant for the Chancellery for years after leaving office and used them in his private consultancy work.
Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena revoked the national arrest warrant against Carles Puigdemont after Spain's Constitutional Court ruled that the 2024 amnesty law covers embezzlement charges tied to Catalonia's 2017 independence referendum. Puigdemont, who has lived abroad since the failed secession bid, can now return to Spain without being arrested immediately.
EU interior ministers and migration commissioner Magnus Brunner have approved plans for 'return hubs' in third countries, a standardised EU-wide deportation order and an expanded Frontex repatriation mandate, aiming to open the first hubs in 2027. Rights groups warn the detention centres risk violations and amount to outsourcing migration enforcement beyond EU legal oversight.
Lawmakers voted 106 to 18 to begin removing Article 137, which has barred foreign military bases and weapons of mass destruction from Lithuanian territory, citing Russia's nuclear build-up in Kaliningrad and Belarus. A final vote is due on January 12, 2027, after a three-month waiting period; Lithuania says it should not be less protected than NATO neighbours Latvia, Estonia and Poland, which have no such restriction.
Lawmakers in Libya's eastern-based parliament voted out speaker Aguila Saleh, 82, after 12 years in office, replacing him with Al-Salhin Abdelnabi al-Obeidi. Analysts say Saleh had grown weaker as Khalifa Haftar's son Saddam consolidates power in the east.
On October 5, India's Supreme Court ordered the Election Commission to explain a revision that has deleted roughly 130 million names from voter rolls since 2025 and that the commission says targets fraud. Opposition Congress leaders say Muslim and minority communities have been disproportionately hit and accuse Prime Minister Modi's party of orchestrating the exercise, after days of protest.
Russian authorities placed about 190 contacts under quarantine in Siberia's Irkutsk region after researcher Darya Shipilova, 28, died in late September at an institute that studies plague, though the health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor insists she died of 'pneumonia of unknown origin' unrelated to her work. The WHO rated the public health risk low to moderate for the region and very low for Europe, while Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan tightened border checks.
A sweeping rehang of the museum's own collection pairs Turkish modern and contemporary art with international names, tracing the story from the 1940s onward. It runs for well over a year, so there is no rush, but it rewards more than one visit.
İKSV's autumn film festival runs across four Istanbul venues with around 40 films, including new work by Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi and Ryusuke Hamaguchi picked up from Cannes, Venice and Toronto. It is the easiest way in the city to catch festival titles before they open commercially, if they ever do.
The Cuban-American Grammy winner and trumpeter plays Zorlu PSM on October 8 as the 36th Akbank Jazz Festival enters its last days, part of a programme of over 30 concerts marking Miles Davis's centenary alongside international and Turkish musicians. The festival wraps up October 11 with a free-jazz-leaning closing weekend.
Police shot and wounded a man carrying a knife outside the Royal Palace in central Stockholm on Tuesday evening after he approached palace guards; he was hospitalised with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police have opened investigations into aggravated threats against a public official and an aggravated knife offence, and said there was no danger to the public.
Sweden will deploy a Patriot air defence battery and about 100 troops to Rzeszow, Poland, from early December, taking over from the Netherlands at a logistics hub supporting Ukraine. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said the deployment aims to help protect military and civilian support for Ukraine, extending Sweden's contribution alongside its Gripen jets in NATO air policing.