A total of 31 PKK terrorists were killed on Sunday during Turkish security forces’ anti-terror operations in southeastern provinces of Mardin, Sirnak, and Hakkari. Source: AA
Leaders from Russia, Turkey, Germany and France will meet in Istanbul next week in an effort to shore up a truce preventing further violence in Syria’s last rebel-held region and bolster the political process toward ending the seven-year civil war. Source: Bloomberg
Turkey’s Naval Forces have interdicted a Greek warship as it harassed a Turkish seismic vessel off Cyprus, according to local media reports. State-run Anadolu Agency reported Oct. 18 that Turkey’s first seismic vessel Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa was harassed by a Greek frigate during its ongoing probe off Cyprus. An undisclosed number of warships of Turkey’s Naval Forces interdicted the Greek warship, the report added. “We recommend Greece to abstain from acts that would cause an escalation in the Mediterranean region,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement after the incident. Source Hurriyetdailynews
Turkey’s top refiner, Tüpraş, is in talks with U.S. officials to obtain a waiver allowing it to keep buying Iranian oil after Washington reinstates sanctions on the Islamic Republic’s energy sector in November, industry sources said. Source: Hurriyet Daily News
