Eastern Mediterranean

Turkey's red meat production surged in the third quarter of 2019, the country's statistical authority said on Nov. 12.

Experts in the Cyprus exhumed human remains in the northwest of the island, some 55 years after Turkish planes bombed a Greek Cypriot stronghold in Pachyammos.

Turkey's current account balance saw a $2.48 billion surplus in September, bettering by $599 million from September 2018, the Turkish Central Bank announced on Nov. 12.

Turkey's İlbank will provide financial and technical assistance to the country's provinces' climate action plans, the bank's vice president has announced.

A man linked to the Islamic State in Syria remains stranded in the buffer zone on the Greek-Turkish border, Kathimerini understands.
The man, who is said to hold US citizenship, appears to have been expelled by Turkey. However, Greek authorities have refused to allow him to enter Greece.
The man remains under the purview of Turkish authorities.

The European Union has unveiled a system for imposing sanctions on Turkey over its unauthorized gas drilling in Mediterranean waters off Cyprus but no Turkish companies or officials have yet been targeted.

Turkey's "Eastern Mediterranean Invitation Exercise" of 2019 continued on its second day, on Nov. 11.

U.S. attempts to control Syrian oil fields are "illegal," said Russia's top diplomat on Nov. 11.

As the world commemorates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bullet-riddled sandstone walls of abandoned, crumbling homes and concrete machine gun nests dotting Cyprus' no man's land serve as a jarring reminder of another divided capital — the world's last — on Europe's southeastern frontier.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias marked 30 years since the fall of the wall that divided East and West Berlin on Saturday, adding that the time has come to end the 45-year division of Cyprus.