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The American Hellenic Institute (AHI), a nonprofit Greek-American public policy center and think tank, has urged Washington to end its "appeasement" policy toward Turkey, while reiterating a call upon Congress to sanction Ankara over its military incursion into northeast Syria. 

The European Commission announced on Tuesday that Croatia has "taken the measures needed to ensure that the necessary conditions for the full application of the Schengen rules and standards are met".

UN envoy Jane Holl Lute will return to Cyprus in November to prepare the ground for a meeting between United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and the Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci at the end of the same month.

Dismissed Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Tuesday that the Co-operation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), under which the European Commission verifies Romania's and Bulgaria's progress with judiciary reform and the fight against corruption, "betrays discrimination against Romania and Bulgaria." Dancila said in Botosani that the monitoring process to which Romania and Bulgaria have been s

Turkey's stock exchange Borsa Istanbul has named Hakan Atilla its new managing director, according to a BIST statement on Oct. 21.      

"Plenty of Turks" have died as a result of conflicts on Turkey's borders, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 21 in defense of his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria. 

,,This small stretch of 11 km is extremely important for Bulgaria. First, we end the Turkish Stream 2 saga - whether or not it will pass through us. We are beginning the Balkan Stream'', said Prof. Atanas Tasev, an energy expert, in the studio of BNT's Morning Block.

According to him, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has made "geopolitical sense" in the Balkan Stream.

The appeals court in Pristina has upheld the verdict that found Milorad Zajic not guilty of committing war crimes against the civilian population and violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Some 234,055 houses were sold in Istanbul, Turkey's largest and wealthiest city, last year with a total transaction value of 120.6 billion Turkish Liras (around $20.7 billion), a report by the Real Estate Stock Exchange (GABORAS) said.

Economists, surveyed by Anadolu Agency on Oct. 21, predicted that the Central Bank of Turkey (CBRT) will further reduce interest rates.