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Turkey's leading technology event, the Smart Future World Expo 2019, will start in Istanbul next week.

Turkey issued a travel warning on Oct. 25 for Turks in Iraq as that country experience anti-government demonstrations.

Flamingos in Van Lake, in Turkey's east, have started their migration to Africa as winter approaches.

A Cypriot official says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invited the rival leaders of the ethnically split island nation to meet in Berlin later this month.

Government spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said Friday that the Nov. 25 meeting in the German capital will aim to map out the next steps towards a possible resumption of formal peace talks.

Cyprus will seek an explanation from the British government over how an ancient vase given to the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a state gift has ended up on the auction block.

A Cyprus official says Cyprus' embassy in London would raise the issue with UK authorities.

Greece and Turkey's defense ministers discussed the increased tensions in the eastern Aegean on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels on Friday, in their first meeting since Nikos Papagiotopoulos took office.

The Greek minister raised the issue of Turkey's illegal actions in the Aegean, according to sources cited by news website Skai.

The measurements rank the Serbian capital next to Delhi and Beijing.

Despite air problems in the Russe region, data from metering stations show that Belgrade is among the most polluted cities in recent days around the world. The measurements put the Serbian capital near cities such as Beijing, Delhi, Karachi.

Some 44 percent of fish in Turkish waters have microplastics in their stomachs, according to a recent report prepared by Greenpeace Mediterranean.

Turkey's presidential commission examining emergency state process said on Oct. 25, 73 percent of applications concerning measures taken after a defeated coup attempt in July 2016 have been concluded.

Turkey's manufacturing industry capacity utilization rate (CUR) marginally improved on a monthly basis in October, the Central Bank said on Oct. 25.