Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will travel to Turkey on Sunday for discussions expected to focus on the conflict in Syria, state media reported.

Morsi's visit will be his first to Turkey since he became Egypt's first democratically elected civilian president in June.

A Lebanese man who has been held hostage in Syria along with ten other pilgrims since May was released on Tuesday, media reports said.

Awad Ibrahim told LBCI TV network that he was in good health.

Church of Cyprus head Archbishop Chrysostomos II said on Monday that reuniting the island's rival Greek and Turkish communities appeared impossible, in a rare interview accorded to Turkish media.

Chrysostomos told the English-language Hurriyet Daily News that a Cyprus resolution seemed unlikely because of "grandiose expectations" from minority Turkish Cypriots and Turkey.

Turkish Ambassador Inan Ozyildiz stressed that his country is exerting efforts to maintain Lebanon's stability and sovereignty, expressing hope that the developments in the region would reinforce this matter.

Ozyildiz said during a lunch banquet held by former Social Affairs Minister Nayla Moawad in Ehden on Sunday that Turkey is trying to promote pluralism in the region.

Hundreds of protesters in Istanbul burnt U.S. and Israeli flags Sunday in a heated reaction against an American film and French cartoons that have sparked dearly riots across the Middle East and North Africa.

Around 500 people gathered around the Turkish city's iconic Taksim Square, chanting "Allah-u Akbar" as they burnt Western flags in a display of fury for the inflammatory depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.

Syrian rebels announced that their command center has been transferred from neighboring Turkey to inside Syria, in a video posted on Saturday.

"The Free Syrian Army command has moved into liberated areas of Syria following arrangements made with battalions and brigades to secure these zones," FSA chief, Colonel Riyadh al-Asaad, said in the video.

The Turkish army has deployed artillery and anti-aircraft missiles near a Syria border post being disputed between Damascus regime forces and rebels in fierce clashes, media reported Saturday.

A score of howitzer batteries and missiles were moved to the area as a precautionary measure amid continued fighting on Syrian soil for the control of the Tall al-Abyad border post, NTV news channel said.

A Turkish court on Friday gave life sentences to three ex-generals accused of plotting to overthrow the government before commuting them to 20-year terms on the grounds that the alleged plot failed, NTV television reported.

The three chief suspects in the alleged 2003 coup plot, including Cetin Dogan, former commander of the First Army and dubbed the "mastermind" behind the plot, will each serve 20 years in prison, the private television channel said.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has canceled a visit to the United States where he was due to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting, the Anatolia news agency reported Friday.

Erdogan, who was originally scheduled to be in New York between September 22 and 25, will not be able to do so due to his upcoming party congress, as well as his busy schedule, said Anatolia.

Canada and Turkey's foreign ministers unveiled a monument to fallen diplomats Thursday, a week after U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens was killed in Libya.

The monument in Ottawa stands on the very spot where a Turkish diplomat was assassinated on his way to work 30 years ago, allegedly by Armenian gunmen.