Turkish coup d'état attempt

Baghdad's recent remarks on Turkish soldiers stationed in Iraq are "dangerous and provocative," Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Oct. 7, responding to claims that his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi allegedly said "Turkish soldiers should not think they are having picnic."

A Turkish lawyer has filed a complaint against three senior U.S. soldiers, accusing them of making terror propaganda over the failed July 15 coup while claiming that some of the bombs used in the attempt did not belong to the Turkish military.

More than 160 detention orders were issued on Oct. 7 for security personnel at the Istanbul police headquarters over their alleged links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have masterminded the July 15 coup attempt.

A police officer has committed suicide in the Black Sea province of Bayburt after being suspended over alleged links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, believed to be behind Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt. 

Elementary school students in Turkey will exclusively receive language education in their fifth year as a part of an education system reform package, daily Habertürk reported on Oct. 6. 

Both the Turkish government and the opposition parties want to find out the dynamics behind the bloody coup attempt of July 15. Both the government and the opposition parties accuse the secret network of U.S.-based Islamist scholar Fethullah Gülen of masterminding the coup attempt.

Some 540 soldiers from the naval and air forces command have been temporarily dismissed over their suspected links to U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gülen and his network, who is accused of orchestrating a failed coup in July, the Defense Ministry said. 

Some 427 of the soldiers were from the air forces while the other 113 were from the naval forces.

Ankara expects a rapid recovery in the tourism sector and exports from next year, Finance Minister Naci Ağbal has said, noting that the recently revised growth forecast for 2016 is a "cautious" estimative. 

The foreign ministers of Italy and Spain will pay separate visit to Turkey on Oct. 6 and 7 in a bid to display solidarity with the Turkish government in the aftermath of July 15 coup attempt, the Turkish Foreign Ministry announced on Oct 5. 

A row has reportedly erupted between Nigeria and Turkey over the followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is believed to have orchestrated the attempted July 15 failed coup.