President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 12 reaffirmed Türkiye’s support for an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and called for reconstruction in Gaza to begin without delay.

A Turkish Air Force F-16 crashed during a training flight in the northwestern province of Yalova on Aug. 12, with the pilot ejecting safely, the Defense Ministry said.

The United States and Iran have agreed to extend their ceasefire arrangements beyond an Aug. 17 deadline, Pakistani government sources told Anadolu Agency on Aug. 12, although the length of the extension has yet to be settled.

Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş and Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi met with governors and security chiefs from all 81 provinces on Aug. 12 to discuss the new legal framework for the PKK’s disarmament and dissolution.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will travel to Egypt following his talks in Libya on Aug. 13, days after Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan signed a trilateral defense agreement, diplomatic sources have said.