President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for greater unity among Turkic states on Oct. 30 as Türkiye took over the Organization of Turkic States’ (OTS) rotating chairmanship from Azerbaijan at a summit in Ankara.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed U.S.-Iran negotiations, Gaza and the Russia-Ukraine war with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Atlanta on Oct. 30, Turkish Foreign Ministry sources said.

The Trump administration and state officials are clashing over voting procedures ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. midterm elections, with disputes over alleged noncitizen voters and an Alaska Senate candidacy reaching the courts.

Volkswagen is exploring passenger car production in Türkiye with its local distributor Doğuş Otomotiv, six years after abandoning an earlier factory project.

Türkiye formally nominated Feridun Sinirlioğlu, secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), for U.N. secretary-general on Oct. 30.