Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi met his Greek counterpart in Athens on Friday and asked Greece to extradite FETÖ members and jailed gang leaders, after several transfers stalled at the last minute this year. Greece asked Türkiye to seek Interpol Red Notices where only domestic warrants exist and offered closer intelligence sharing.
Prosecutors identified 141 individuals and 73 companies who made a combined 187.65 billion lira (about $3.8 billion) from three suspended investment funds, and the savings insurance fund TMSF has begun ordering them to repay the money. Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said liquidation payments of up to one million lira per investor are planned this month.
Speaking at the International Justice Summit in Istanbul, President Erdoğan said global institutions are losing credibility by staying silent on Gaza after three years of war, and called for reform of the UN Security Council, saying "the world is bigger than five." He also said Türkiye would keep pursuing fugitives who think they can escape justice by fleeing abroad.
President Erdoğan opened a 153-kilometre high-speed section between Çerkezköy and Kapıkule, completing the Halkalı to Kapıkule line that the EU co-financed. The line cuts travel time from the Istanbul area to the border from four hours to ninety minutes and is meant to lift annual freight capacity from 1.5 million to 9.5 million tons.
EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič and China's Wang Wentao agreed, after four months of talks, to moderate Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid car exports to the EU and ease rare earth export licensing. The deal opens Chinese market access for EU exporters worth almost 4 billion euros, and EU leaders review the details at a Brussels summit next week.
Russian strikes killed 78 people and wounded 215 over two days in Ukraine, including 35 in Kramatorsk and four in Kyiv, where water and power were disrupted. President Zelenskyy accused Washington of being unwilling to help Ukraine, pointing to its parallel economic talks with Moscow, and urged the US to open Starlink for Ukraine and tighten sanctions on Russia.
After a group of 20 migrants used makeshift ladders to cross from Belarus on 5 October, with armed escorts according to Interior Minister Jānis Dombrava, Latvia's border guard has asked to be allowed to use force without a prior warning in some cases. The country has now finished its 173-kilometre fence against Belarus and is entering its fifth year of irregular migration.
August Hanning, 80, who led Germany's BND intelligence service from 1998 to 2005, remains in custody after prosecutors accused him of treason and espionage, saying he received about 2,000 secret documents from a former BND chief of staff for paid consulting work. Prosecutors have not named the country the material allegedly went to, but German media report it was not Russia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court itself, after earlier sanctions on more than a dozen judges and prosecutors; a six-month grace period exempts telecommunications, software and pensions. The foreign ministers of Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Japan said in a joint statement they "regret and strongly disagree" with the move.
South African jurist Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights chief and Nelson Mandela's defence lawyer, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work promoting peace and international law. She recently chaired the UN inquiry that concluded Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.
A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 31 civilians and wounded 19 at a camp for displaced people in Blue Nile state, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, which called the strike a war crime. Four children were among the dead; the RSF had not commented at the time of publication.
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson, who holds the exploratory mandate, gathered the Left Party, the Centre Party and the Green Party on Friday for their first meeting since the 13 September election; government formation remains deadlocked. The Left Party wants ministerial posts, while the Centre Party says it cannot support a government that includes the Left.
Sweden is taking part, as it did last year, with a Gripen aircraft and staff officers in NATO's annual nuclear exercise Steadfast Noon, running 12 to 24 October in Italy with 17 participating nations; NATO says no live nuclear weapons are involved. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Defence Minister Pål Jonson defend the participation as a contribution to alliance security.