Turkey will never allow attempts to “extort” natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Nov. 4. “We will never allow attempts of extorting natural resources in the eastern Mediterranean by excluding us and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,” Erdoğan said at the delivery ceremony of the TCG Burgazada, the third ship of Turkey’s first indigenous warship program MİLGEM, to the Turkish Naval Forces in Istanbul. Source: Hürriyet Daily News
EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn was quoted Nov. 6 as telling German daily Die Welt: “I think that, in the long term, it would be more honest for Turkey and the EU to go down new roads and end the accession talks.” Source: Hürriyet Daily News
Nigeria will increase its oil production to 1.8 million barrels per day in 2019 and raise condensate production to 0.5 million bpd, the managing director of Nigerian state oil firm NNPC said on Tuesday. Source: Reuters
Downing Street has confirmed that a draft Brexit agreement has been reached between the UK and European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May will present it to her senior ministers on Wednesday, but it is unclear if May will be able to get any deal approved by UK parliament. Source: Euronews
