Published December 05,2025

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The International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) kicked off its energy and sustainability conference IAEE MECA (Middle East and Central Asia) 2025 in the southwestern Turkish city of Antalya on Dec. 4-6.

The event brings together global experts on energy, economics, and sustainability. Anadolu serves as its global communications partner.

The summit will address the challenges and opportunities in energy transition, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Special sessions on small modular reactors, e-mobility, critical minerals, and energy transition pathways specific to Central Asia will be discussed.

Gurkan Selcuk Kumbaroglu, chair of the IAEE MECA 2025 organizing committee, told Anadolu that participants from 24 countries are participating in the energy summit. The participants are mainly from the Middle East and Central Asia, but also from Brazil, China, and Europe.

“People from all over the world are participating in our event, which shows the importance given to Türkiye in the field of energy,” he said.

Kumbaroglu stated that one of the preliminary workshops at the summit is on financing energy transition.

He noted that the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) was held in Brazil this year, and Türkiye will be holding the next iteration, the COP31, in Antalya. He said the IAEE will participate in COP meetings and that the energy summit is a preparatory event.

“The energy transition field has an annual financing need of around $1.3 trillion — about $300 billion of this is committed by developed countries, but there’s still a very serious financing need,” he said. “We started the summit with a workshop on this issue, and at the same time, we held another workshop on sustainability and life cycle.”

He stated that the summit is bringing together several university departments as well as the public and business sectors.

“Many investors from all around the world and the private sector are here, alongside many senior executives and officials from various firms — they show their desire to invest in Türkiye,” he added.

Published December 04,2025

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Türkiye’s real estate business broke a record this year, selling around 2.87 million properties in the January-November period, according to data from the country’s Land Registry and Cadaster General Directorate (TKGM).

The number of real estate properties sold nationwide rose 7.6% on an annual basis, the data showed. These properties include homes, land, fields, workplaces, and commercial properties.

The previous first-11-month record was 2.82 million real estate properties sold in January-November 2022.

Real estate sales in Türkiye increased in January, February, April, May, June, July, August, and September year-on-year, while falling in March, October, and November, according to the data.

The Turkish real estate sector sold some 238,938 properties in January, 232,756 in February, 222,934 in March, 237,829 in April, 263,643 in May, 218,282 in June, 284,852 in July, 290,564 in August, 300,687 in September, and 310,457 in October.

In November, the number of properties sold was 273,295, up 8.6% on an annual basis.

Meanwhile, a total of 18.4 million transactions were made at land registry offices in Türkiye in January-November, the data showed.

Around 2.9 million of these transactions were sales, over 1.2 million were mortgages, 446,000 transfers, 157,000 corrections, 62,300 expropriations, 48,300 divisions, 34,000 donations, nearly 27,900 mergers, and around 26,100 partitions.

Some 13.4 million other transactions were also made in these offices.

Revenue from fees collected from these transactions surged 73.7% to 139.1 billion Turkish lira ($3.2 billion), $3.1 billion of which was generated from sales transactions.

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Published 05.12.2025 00:41

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Published December 04,2025

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Türkiye on Thursday summoned senior Ukrainian and Russian diplomats to the Foreign Ministry after attacks on ships sailing in international waters in the Black Sea.

According to information obtained by Anadolu, Turkish officials conveyed to Ukrainian Ambassador Nariman Celal and Russian charge d’affaires Aleksei Ivanov Ankara’s concern over the attacks during the meetings held at the ministry.

Earlier on Saturday, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Öncü Keçeli said in a post on US social media company X that the attacks on the Kairos and Virat vessels happened inside Türkiye’s exclusive economic zone and “have posed serious risks to navigation, life, property and environmental safety in the region.”

Ankara is carrying out talks with the relevant parties to prevent the spread of the war in Ukraine across the Black Sea and to protect Türkiye’s economic interests, Keçeli added.