President Erdoğan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Dolmabahçe Palace on Saturday, where both leaders condemned attacks on Black Sea shipping and agreed to work toward a functioning grain corridor. Erdoğan said a just peace "has no losers" and offered Turkish help rebuilding Ukraine, while Zelensky pressed Black Sea security as a priority.
Istanbul prosecutors detained Korkmaz Enes Ergun, head of Turkey's stock exchange since 2021, on bribery and organised-crime membership allegations tied to a widening capital markets investigation. The probe has produced 26 detentions in October and follows a fund crisis that hit more than 455,000 investors in September.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the G20 that Washington is examining a Turkish proposal to resume grain shipments through the Black Sea, raised by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in talks that also touched on Iran and Gaza. Rubio said the plan would ease a humanitarian problem without resolving the war in Ukraine itself.
President Karol Nawrocki convened PiS and allied party leaders at the presidential palace on Saturday, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk's party stayed away, after the Constitutional Tribunal's chief judge was suspended. Tusk accused his opponents of trying to "destroy democracy and rule of law," and the US ambassador warned against a confrontation that could "spiral into something far worse."
Around 320,000 people marched nationwide on Saturday, down from 410,000 the previous weekend and 550,000 in mid-October, as France entered its third consecutive weekend of demonstrations over living costs, education and now rearmament spending. Police reported clashes in Lyon, Paris and Marseille despite a heavy security deployment of 70,000 officers and night curfews in central Paris.
The State Department cleared a $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptors to Ukraine, and President Zelensky called the deal "strong" while warning that manufacturing delays mean deliveries could take years to arrive, missing this winter entirely. He urged allies to draw down existing NATO stockpiles instead, as Russia intensifies strikes on Ukraine's power grid.
Spanish authorities said the death toll from last Wednesday's high-speed rail collision near Toledo has risen to 69, warning that more remains may still be identified. The train drivers' union called strikes for 10 and 12 November, demanding an overhaul of the automatic safety system that stopped working minutes before the crash.
Demonstrators gathered at Habima Square urging opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form a government with Arab-led parties and exclude Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after Tuesday's election left neither bloc close to a majority. Eisenkot has so far rejected the idea, with official results still not finalised.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Qatari mediators have narrowed Iran's plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz from five days to two, after Tehran raised issues including sanctions relief, a reduced US military presence and $6 billion in frozen funds held in Qatar. He said Iran sees "no need to meet with the Americans at this stage" while mediators continue consultations.