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Azerbaijan's Eldaniz Azizli is a world champion for the fifth time. The Greco-Roman wrestler won gold at 55 kg at the world championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, beating Iran's Payam Ahmadi 3:1 in the final.

Turkish President Erdoğan’s chief adviser Oktay Saral has been dismissed following his harsh criticism of Azerbaijan over the headscarves ban in schools.

Turkish actor Burak Özçivit is coming to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On November 19, he will appear on stage at the Humo Arena

Uzbek comedian Ulugbek is building an audience in Europe.

After US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Uzbekistan, Iranian embassies abroad posted that the city and its Registan square belong to Iranian-Islamic civilization. Uzbekistan answered by summoning Iran's ambassador and handing over a formal protest note demanding the posts be deleted. For Uzbekistan and for all Turkic countries, Samarkand is not a museum of someone else's civilization, it is the anchor of Uzbekistan's own national story.

The first FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival has officially opened in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the Baku Crystal Hall. President Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and FIFA president Gianni Infantino attended the opening ceremony, APA reports. The tournament brings the world's youngest international football talent to the Caspian capital. Baku has been building its profile as a host of global youth sport, and Infantino had already thanked Azerbaijan for staging the event. The festival format pairs competition with cultural events for the young players.

Uzbekistan’s alphabet reform makes it easier for Turks and Azerbaijanis to understand Uzbek.

An Uzbek delivery courier, Hasan Azlarov, working as a courier, was waiting for an order at a cafe when he sat down at the piano and started playing. He was invited to work as a restaurant pianist. He studied music from age 7.

Baku is getting its first "Royale Casino" in May 2027. Emin Agalarov, the developer behind the Sea Breeze resort project, announced the casino will span 90,000 square meters on an artificial peninsula in the Caspian Sea sector of Azerbaijan. The venue will include 12 VIP halls and a main hall built for international poker tournaments. Entry will be restricted to visitors 21 and older.

Around 90% of Crimea is without power after Ukrainian strikes, Russian sources report. The blackout followed a wave of Ukrainian attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed strikes on a command post and drone facilities in Crimea overnight. Crimea is Russia's most prized occupied territory and the logistical hub of its southern war effort. A near-total blackout there is one of Ukraine's biggest deep-strike successes of the war.

Hazara men protecting Buddhist statues in a museum in Afghanistan.

Kazakhstan: a teenage girl swore on a TikTok livestream, and it was her mother who got punished. Police summoned both after the October 14 broadcast and held the mother administratively liable for failing her parental duties.

Turkish cats are still unbothered by immigration. They need to watch more Elon Musk to learn what they’re supposed to be angry about.

Zuckerberg says Threads has overtaken X in monthly active users. He told analysts on Meta's earnings call that Threads passed X and 'continues to grow quickly.' Meta's family of apps hit 3.64 billion daily users in September.

Uzbekistan just reformed its alphabet. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Latin-script reform law. The alphabet now has 28 letters plus one apostrophe. Four digraphs become single letters: O' to Ö, G' to Ğ, Sh to Ş, Ch to Ç. The Ng combination is dropped entirely. Saida Mirziyoyeva, who has pushed the reform since December 2023, called it the correction of a years-long historic mistake.

Azerbaijan has declared 31 Turkish citizens persona non grata, banning them from entering the country. The list includes politicians, journalists, writers and public figures, among them Fatih Erbakan, MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, and commentator Ahmet Cakir. Reasons: calls for violent overthrow of the government, religious radicalism, inciting religious hatred and hostility.

The first comprehensive dictionary of the Turkic languages was written nearly 1,000 years ago in Baghdad. Mahmud al-Kashgari, a scholar from Kashgar (in today's East Turkestan), spent years traveling across the Turkic world collecting dialects and sayings, then compiled the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the Compendium of the Languages of the Turks, between 1072 and 1074. About 7,500 words, samples of old Turkic poetry, and even the first known map of the lands where Turkic peoples lived. By then the Seljuk Turks had become the real power behind the Abbasid Caliphate, so the book was meant to teach the Arabic-speaking world that Turkic was a language of equal standing to Arabic.

Armenia's PM Nikol Pashinyan repeatedly called Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov the "president of Kazakhstan" during an official event.

A defense industry agreement is to be signed between Türkiye, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Two prisoners in chains stand against a mud wall in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. This was the zindan, the dungeon of the Emir of Bukhara: in essence a pit in the earth, and most of the men inside it were not killers but debtors held under Bukharan sharia law until their families could pay. A few steps away stood the infamous "bug pit", where two British officers, Charles Stoddart and Arthur Conolly, were tortured and beheaded in 1842 on the Emir's orders.