FETO leader, preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom Turkey accuses of being the organizer of the July 2016 coup attempt, died at the age of 83 in one of the hospitals in the US state of Pennsylvania. Ankara has repeatedly demanded the extradition of Gulen from its NATO ally, the United States.

In the last three years, the number of Central Asian immigrants to Lithuania has increased 14 times. The head of the Lithuanian State Security Department, Dariusz Jaunishkis, said that there are no grounds for serious concerns at the moment, but that anti-Western sentiment is growing.

A girl studying in the 11th grade of one of the schools in the Fergana region became the ambassador of the Microsoft Learn Student program for young people - a symbolic ambassador of the Microsoft company. He completed the technical tasks and conditions given by the company for a year, including 30 modules of lessons and assignments on artificial intelligence.

Starting from October 17, Russia has imposed temporary restrictions on the import of wheat, lentils, tomatoes, peppers and sugarcane products from Kazakhstan. Rosselkhoznadzor stated that this decision was taken "due to the lack of measures to ensure the phytosanitary safety of the territory of Russia by the competent authorities of Kazakhstan."

At the business forum held in Tashkent, Kuwaiti companies were invited to participate in the privatization program of more than a thousand state-owned enterprises in Uzbekistan, as well as to consider opportunities to participate in the development of the logistics infrastructure of Uzbekistan. Possibilities of developing cooperation in such fields as mining, energy, textiles, agriculture and healthcare were also discussed.

At the meeting of the Astana Think Thank Forum, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Jomart Tokaev, noted that the current situation in Central Asia is very different from the situation 10 years ago, and that the countries of the region are actively cooperating with each other.

In the Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, a Jac minibus with 10 citizens of Uzbekistan crashed into a truck waiting to cross the border. As a result, 6 people, including 2 children, died, 4 passengers were hospitalized. All of them were from Khorezm region.

A 56-year-old man from Samarkand, who participated in the war in Ukraine and returned to Uzbekistan after being wounded, was sentenced to three years in prison in order to obtain Russian citizenship. Russian military ID card, injury certificate and photos of Russian passport were found on his phone.

Early voting began on October 16 at polling stations in Uzbekistan and abroad for the election of deputies to the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis, as well as regional, district and city councils of people's deputies.

Kyrgyz President Sadir Japarov stressed that Western countries should not dictate to Bishkek with whom it should develop cooperation. "There are European countries that are members of NATO or the European Union, which also cooperate with Russia. But they should not tell us, show us or ask us not to cooperate with Russia or the CIS," he said.