GREECE GETS €2 BILLION FROM EUROZONE FIFA OPENS FORMAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PRICE OF OIL DROPS CLOSE TO SEVEN-YEAR LOW WEATHER BAILOUT FUND BLATTER, PLATINI The European Stability Mechanism on Monday an- FIFA’s Ethics Committee on Monday opened formal pro- The price of Brent oil held steady at about $43 per barrel nounced the release of a much-needed tranche of bailout ceedings against the body’s suspended president, Sepp Blat- Monday; however, the bearish outlook remains strong in Monday funds for Greece on Monday. The €2 billion ($2.12 billion) ter, and UEFA President Michel Platini. the oil market with the slowdown in the Chinese economy PARTLY CLOUDY disbursement approved on Monday will primarily be used “The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics and concerns over the glut of crude supply, an analyst told 12 °C for debt service, as well as for arrears clearance, and co-fi- Committee chaired by Hans-Joachim Eckert has today Anadolu Agency. nancing projects funded by EU structural funds, the fund opened formal adjudicatory proceedings against Joseph The price of the global benchmark Brent crude oil opened Tuesday said in a statement. After a long period of fraught nego- S. Blatter and Michel Platini based on the final reports at $44.36 per barrel, but fell to $43.70 a barrel around 9:30 PARTLY CLOUDY tiations between the Greek government and the lenders submitted by the investigatory chamber,” FIFA said in a a.m in Turkey [0730GMT]. It is nearly lowest price seen in 16 °C and the enactment of a new series of reforms by the Greek statement. >SPORT parliament on Thursday,... >EUROPE seven years. >ECONOMY Monday November 23, 2015 1,700 Turkmen Flee Syrian Turkey: House Sales Rebound in October Regime Attacks to Turkey HOUSE SALES WERE UP 8.8 PERCENT IN VILLAGERS CROSS INTO HATAY PROVINCE AS SYRIAN FORCES BACKED OCTOBER FROM THE SAME MONTH IN THE BY RUSSIAN AIRPOWER ATTACK BORDER REGION PREVIOUS YEAR 92,483 units, although that HATAY, Turkey Syria, Turkish authorities told an An- was the only monthly decline Around 1,700 Syrian Turkmen have adolu Agency correspondent. They seen this year. arrived in southern Turkey over the discounted media reports that up to Istanbul maintained its top last three days, a local governor said 40,000 Turkmen were heading for spot in overall sales with a Sunday, as they flee regime attacks the border. 17.7 percent share, corre- backed by Russian airstrikes. There are now around 14,000 Syrians sponding to 18.468 units. Is- Hatay province Governor Ercan To- living at Yamadi, which is close to tanbul was followed by capital paca said 28 injured civilians from Yayladagi, Hatay. Ankara with 10.6 percent, or the Bayir Bucak border region were The Turkmen refugees have been 11,028 units, followed by Iz- among the refugees, one of who had died. taken in at the Arfali camp, where mir, which had 5.8 percent of He told a news conference that up to they had been given aid including overall sales, or 5,987 units. 30,000 inhabitants of the mountain- tents, blankets, beds, children’s cloth- ANKARA of 8.8 percent in October The use of mortages for house ous area could potentially be forced ing, food and medical attention. House sales in Turkey re- 2015 compared with the same sales in Turkey decreased 18.7 from their homes in attacks on mod- Turkmen are a Turkic ethnic group bounded in October after a month last year, reaching percent compared with the erate opposition forces and Turkmen based largely in Syria and Iraq. sharp drop in September, the 104,098 units, the report said. same month of the previous and Arab villages. Syria’s civil war, now in its fifth year, Turkish Statistical Institute Sales had declined sharply in year. Mortgage sales were at Meanwhile, almost 5,500 people ar- has left at least 250,000 people dead, reported on Monday. September 2015 from a year 27,996 in October. >MORE DETAILS rived at the Yamadi refugee camp in according to the UN. House sales saw an increase earlier by 20.1 percent to >MORE DETAILS Russia, Assad Regime Continue Ak Party Deputy Elected Pounding Turkmen Mountain Turkey’s Parliamentary RUSSIA AIMS TO MAKE ASSAD MORE POWERFUL AHEAD OF NEGOTIATIONS Speaker WITH OPPOSITION, TURKMEN LEADER SAYS JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT (AK) PARTY DEPUTY Hezbollah and Iranian forces, fight- ble Kurdish zone, said that the “fall of GETS 316 VOTES TO HEAD GRAND NATIONAL ing actively in the region for about the Turkmen Mountain will provide ASSEMBLY two years, also support the operation. an opportunity for Kurds to come to Justice and Development dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s That’s what our nation ex- According to local sources, Gimam, the Mediterranean shore”. (AK) Party lawmaker Ismail home province, promised ob- pects from us.” Hill 45, Zuveyk village, Acisu inter- Mustafa said that the protection of the Kahraman was elected speaker jectivity under his tenure. He said redrafting Turkey’s section and the Red Mountain hill re- Turkmen presence in Bayirbucak re- of Turkish parliament on Sunday. “We will conduct the legis- current constitution, written gion have passed into the control of gion would also be an obstacle for the Kahraman received 316 votes lative and supervisory efforts following the 1980 military Assad regime forces. Kurdish zone. in the third round of voting in line with the constitution, coup, would rank high on the Turkmen Mountain Strategic importance of Bayirbucak by the Grand National As- regulation and bylaws in full parliament’s agenda. The head of Turkmen Parliament in The Red Mountain, about five kilo- sembly’s 550 deputies. objectivity,” he told deputies Kahraman previously worked Syria, Abdurrahman Mustafa, says meters [just over three miles] from The Istanbul deputy replaces after the vote. at the labor and culture min- that various motivations lay behind the Turkish border, has the strategic Ismet Yilmaz as parliamenta- “I believe our lawmakers and istries as, respectively, under- Russia’s rising attacks against Turk- importance of being the highest peak ry speaker, the second highest parties will display the re- secretary and minister. Mar- men Mountain. in the region. position in the Turkish state. quired sensitivity to enable ried with four children, He said that in the short run, Russia’s If the regime forces obtain full con- Kahraman, a veteran AK Par- effective efforts by parliament >MORE DETAILS aim is to give military superiority to trol of Red Mountain, they can attack ty member from Rize, Presi- and to protect its dignity. the Assad regime, and to sit down as 10 villages located in the region, with powerful as possible at the negotia- artillery. The Assad regime, supported by Hez- terterrorism’ campaign in Syria. tion table. Acisu region is another target of the th bollah and Iranian forces and Russia Russia, known for ‘coordinating’ “The Turkmen Mountain is a buffer regime forces. Acisu, the Red Moun- 9 Mediterranean EU Inks by the air and sea, continues to attack fighting in the region between re- zone in the coastal region,” Mustafa tain and Hill 45 in the south, have vi- the Bayirbucak region, close to Turk- gime forces and Turkmen units, in- said, adding that it is a region that has tal importance for the Syrian regime. Economic Meeting to Agreement ish border, inhabited by Turkmen. tervenes in the situation by attacking remained between Antakya and “La- In the southern line, after the Gimam The intensification of the attacks Turkmen Mountain with missiles takia, which is Assad’s castle”. village, the Assad regime has taken Open in Barcelona on Iran’s in the last period shows that Russia from warships in the Mediterranean. He said that in the case of the Assad control of Zuveyk village. By ad- POLITICAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS TO DISCUSS aims to give more power to President Regime forces, supported by Russia’s regime taking control of Turkmen vancing in the Burcu’l Kasab region, REGIONAL ISSUES AT MEDITERRANEAN WEEK Arak Bashar al-Assad before sitting at the air campaign, are staging a ground Mountain it could then pose a threat the Assad regime forces can break up OF ECONOMIC LEADERS CONFERENCE IN negotiation table with the opposition operation in the region. to Turkey. the connection between Turkmen reactor forces, in accordance with the con- The attacks began in the southeast- Mustafa said that Assad aims to in- Mountain and Cebel Ekrad, and be- BARCELONA clusion of the Vienna talks last week. ern Gimam village while, for the last clude the strategic region of Turk- siege the Turkmen Mountain. Political and business leaders ranean Week of Economic Russia has also been attacking the five days, Russian jets have intensive- men Mountain inside the borders of >MORE DETAILS from around the Mediterra- Leaders, one of the major Bayirbucak Turkmen region since ly bombed Acisu, Firinlik and Red the Nusrayi state. nean region are to meet in economic events in the re- Sept. 30, when it began an air ‘coun- Mountain (Kizildag) regions in Bayirbucak. Mustafa, speaking also about a possi- Barcelona, Spain, to discuss gion, will open in Barcelona economic cooperation and on Wednesday. ways of attracting private in- The leaders forum is organ- vestment to the region. ized by the Association of the Refugee Girl’s Body Washed up on The three-day the Mediter- Turkish Police Arrest ‘DOCUMENT REPRE- SENTS AN IMPORTANT Turkey’s Western Coast 11 Daesh Suspects MILESTONE TOWARDS IMAGE OF DROWNED SYRIAN GIRL STIRS MEMORIES OF AYLAN KURDI, FOUND SIMULTANEOUS ANTI-TERROR RAIDS THE FULL IMPLEMEN- ACROSS THREE PROVINCES TATION OF IRAN’S ON BEACH IN SEPTEMBER NUCLEAR DEAL,’ EU In simultaneous operations, OFFICIAL SAYS MUGLA, Turkey An image of a young girl’s body eight were arrested in Bingol A young girl’s body was among those wedged between rocks flooded social province, eastern Turkey, EU High Representative for For- washed up on Turkey’s western coast media in Turkey as users commented two in Balikesir on the west eign Affairs and Security Policy on Sunday in a chilling reminder of on the tragedy.