Türkiye on Nov. 27 expressed concern over a drone attack that struck the Kormor natural gas field in Iraq’s Sulaymaniyah province, saying such assaults threaten the country’s stability and broader regional prosperity.

Representatives from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) traveled to the island on Nov. 24.

Türkiye has announced that it will begin producing the active ingredient of a major spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treatment and the production of the drug domestically, marking a significant step toward reducing dependence on costly imported therapies for the rare genetic disease.

Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır has said that Türkiye must play an active role in the European Union's upcoming security and defense initiatives, highlighting opportunities in the bloc's 150 billion euro "European Security Action" (SAFE) financing program.

Türkiye’s unemployment rate decreased to 8.5 percent in October, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Nov. 28.

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz said on Nov. 27 that Türkiye will join the high-income countries category for the first time this year under World Bank criteria, after rising from lower-middle to upper-middle income over the past quarter-century.

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