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Bulgaria has no ground to react to two successive remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made last week, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has said.

During his official visit to the Turkish capital, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has criticized Ankara's comparison of the state of emergency in Turkey with the state of emergency in France. 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Ankara on Oct. 24 to hold talks with senior Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and to visit the parliament building that was bombed during the military coup attempt of July 15. 

On a live TV show on Oct. 22, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said his government was preparing for a new decree in the force of law (KHK) in order to return those dismissed from their public jobs "by mistake" in the wake of the probes after the military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Export Development Canada (EDC) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. government's development finance institution, are co-financing the development of a 769.6-million-euro high-tech hospital in İzmir. 

Some 15,000 exporters will be offered a special kind of passport that will enable holders to acquire visas quicker and gain visa-free entrance to many countries as part of new incentives in the sector, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has said.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at Recep Tayyip Erdogan University at a ceremony heralding the start of the academic year. His speech is a giant embrace of Turks across the world. In essence, though, it is a speech about Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is accompanied by his wife Emine Erdogan, the speaker of the Grand National Assembly, Ismail Kahraman, and ministers.

US President Barack Obama's expected visit to the Greek capital next month could mark a turning point in bilateral relations between Washington and Athens at a time when Greece is facing significant financial as well as diplomatic challenges.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan has raised yet again the issue of the Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923 and its influence on the Turkish state, stating that since the signing of the agreement, the country has found itself in a "vicious circle".

Erdogan also commented on the topic of the borders of Turkey which shrunk drastically after the signing of the treaty.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again declared his opposition to interest rates, stating that earning via interest is "a tool of exploitation." 
"I am an enemy of interest earnings. I see it as a tool of exploitation," Erdoğan said on Oct. 20 during a ceremony at the presidential palace in Ankara to mark the financing for two major health projects.