NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi will visit Türkiye tomorrow for talks on security, trade, and regional crises.

Türkiye will stress opposition to any military action against Iran and call for dialogue on the nuclear issue.

The agenda includes boosting trade toward $30 billion, counter-terrorism cooperation (PKK/PJAK), Gaza aid and reconstruction, and stability in Syria.

Iran’s currency opened today with another sharp drop, trading at 1.67 million rials per US dollar, down about 16% since Sunday.

Turkish MoD:

Our navigational warnings, which constitute technical objections to Greece’s activities in the Aegean Sea that are contrary to international law, have been issued on an indefinite basis and not for a two-year period.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with the U.S. Ambassador to Ankara and Special Envoy for Syria, Tom Barrack.

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister, Xavier Bettel:

I heard that President Zelensky said that they have to be a member next year.

I am sorry, I also told him several times: don’t give ultimatums.

It is not in your interest. There are rules that we need to fulfill.

Trump administration officials have secretly met with Alberta separatists seeking independence from Canada.

The Alberta Prosperity Project, a fringe far-right group, held several meetings in Washington and is seeking US financial backing if a future independence referendum succeeds.

US officials say the meetings were routine and involved no commitments. Treasury officials deny knowledge of any funding request.

Source: FT

ICE officers in Minnesota were ordered not to engage with “agitators” during operations and to arrest only immigrants with criminal charges or convictions.

The shift follows two fatal shootings during protests and reflects Trump’s push to “de-escalate” tensions by moving to more targeted enforcement.

Border Patrol will now play a support role, and officers will use megaphones to issue commands instead of interacting with crowds.

Source: Reuters

By order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, 1,000 strategic drones were added today to the Army’s four branches.

Army Commander Major General Hatami said the move strengthens rapid-response and deterrence capabilities.

Source: Tasnim

As tensions rise between the United States and Iran, Türkiye has proposed a trilateral meeting involving the U.S., Iran, and Türkiye at the highest level.

President Erdogan raised the idea directly with Trump, stressing that the crisis should be resolved through diplomacy rather than military action.

The meeting could be held by video conference and would aim to restart dialogue and prevent a possible U.S. strike on Iran.

Source: Hürriyet

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U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen briefly removed 44 Danish flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan, sparking backlash from Danish veterans.

The State Department said the removal followed standard security policy and was not meant as a political statement; the flags were later returned and replacements were allowed to remain.

Source: WaPo

NEW: Israel’s military has, for the first time, accepted Gaza Health Ministry death figures, acknowledging about 71,000 Palestinians killed since the war began.

The IDF said the total does not include missing people under rubble.

Source: Haaretz

Kadyrov on Ukraine:

I believe that negotiations should not be held.

German Foreign Minister Wadephul on Syria:

Syria's central government rightly makes the claim that the monopoly on the use of force in all parts of Syria is exercised by them and not by others, and a basic agreement on this must also be possible in northeastern Syria.

This is fully supported by the international community: that this must happen in a peaceful way, that this is a process of slow integration, also of the SDF forces into the Syrian army.

That is clear. That is what we are working towards, but in the end it will have to happen.

Germany's Merz:

We must make our economy competitive again.

The growth gap of the European Union compared to the U.S. and compared to China has been widening to our disadvantage for well over a decade.

We must reverse this dynamic now.

If we mean business with world-political shaping power, then world-political shaping power depends on economic power.

We have blocked this economic power ourselves. So we can and must solve the blockades ourselves now.

Senior defense and intelligence officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia are in Washington, D.C., meeting with U.S. leaders as Trump weighs possible military action against Iran.

The Israeli delegation is sharing intelligence on potential targets, while Saudi officials are pushing to avoid a broader war and promote diplomacy.

Source: Axios

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Germany's Merz:

Anyone in the world who is of the opinion they have to make politics against Europe with tariffs must know that we are ready and able to defend ourselves against it too, if it is necessary.

They know it now.

EU’s Kaja Kallas:

I can’t imagine that countries will create a separate European Army.

It has to be the armies that already exist.

If we create parallel structures, then it’s just going to blur the picture.