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Just a few days after his provocative statements questioning the territorial borders set by the Treaty of Lausanne, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made new claims, calling for a referendum in "Western Thrace," according to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency.

Ankara cannot be excluded from the operation launched to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 17, stressing that Turkey continues to be under threat from that region.

Pakistan's Punjab provincial government will send nurses to Turkey for training as part of a program being launched in collaboration with Turkey's Health Ministry to upgrade the province's healthcare system.

The first Turkish school was set to open in the Gulf Arab country of Qatar on Oct. 16, according to the school director.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mehmet Said Karatosun said the school would teach children of Turkish citizens living in Qatar.

"The school will follow the Turkish curriculum, and teaching will be in Turkish," he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently discussed possible supplies of Russian air defense systems to Ankara, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Oct. 14. 

The answer is yes.  But do not tell President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He still claims that the world is so anti-Muslim that, in his words, "only if the perpetrator of a murder is a Muslim is this called 'Islamic terror,' while if the perpetrator belongs to a different faith [his act] is not even categorized as terror." Since Mr.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu suggested on Wednesday that Ankara intends to abide by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which decided the sovereignty of many Aegean islands, despite President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent criticism of the agreement.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently met for the third time in two months since the two countries broke the ice and worked to normalize bilateral relations. The agenda of the two leaders included a number of important items: Signing the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline deal, accelerating the building of the Akkuyu nuclear plant, launching fresh

The Turkish parliament has approved Oct. 11 the extension of the state of emergency by three months, which was decided after the July 15 failed coup attempt. 

The Parliament vote came after a cabinet decision for the extension which was first mentioned by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appealed against German prosecutors' decision to drop an investigation into a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about him.

German prosecutors previously said they were dropping the case against Jan Böhmermann, citing insufficient evidence that he had committed any crime.