Major cities across Turkey face running out of water in the next few months, with Istanbul possibly having less than 45 days of water left, due to a lack of rainfall, the Guardian writes. Low rainfall has led to the country's most severe drought in a decade. The Ankara mayor, Mansur Yavaş, said earlier this month the capital had another 110 days' worth in dams and reservoirs.

Turkey held out a grand olive branch to the EU when president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met ambassadors in his Ankara palace on Tuesday.