Overnight Israeli counts reversed exit polls that had put Eisenkot ahead, with outlets reporting Netanyahu's bloc leading after half the votes but short of a majority, leaving Palestinian Arab parties as potential kingmakers.
By mid-morning attention swung to central Spain, where two high-speed trains collided. Initial reports of ten dead rose through the day to more than sixty, with Turkish outlets carrying condolence messages from Ankara.
Domestically the fund case moved toward repayment, with the vice president announcing interim payments as courts imposed then partly lifted asset freezes on Pasifik Holding figures, while Mustafa Sarıgül suspended his New Party membership amid money-laundering and sexual-assault allegations. In the evening Erdoğan hosted Kazakhstan's Tokayev in Ankara and then spoke by phone with Trump on Hormuz and Yemen tensions on the eve of the republic's 103rd anniversary.