Geography of Asia

Fighter pilots stand next to a F-16 fighter aircraft during the joint Air Forces drill "Blue Flag" at the Ovda Air Force Base in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, on Monday (picture issued 12 November 2019).

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

A Saudi Arabian State Security Agency promotional video classified feminism, atheism and homosexuality as "extremist ideas".

The same video says Saudi Arabia defends tolerance and wants to become more attractive to foreigners, Reuters reports. Distributed by the State Security Presidency, the video said "all forms of extremism and perversion are unacceptable."

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.

Iraq is targeting Turkey as one of a possible export route alternatives for oil transportation from the oil-rich Basra region that has seen its exports hamper due to protests in the country, Iraqi Oil Minister Falah Alamri Jassim told Anadolu Agency on Nov. 11.

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

Iran has awarded three Iranian and two Turkish scientists a top prize in a ceremony held on Nov. 11.

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.