News archive of November 2015

At Ankara's Esenbo?a Airport on Nov. 30, Turkish military officers, alongside military attaches of the Russian Embassy in Ankara, saluted the Russian flag-covered coffin of Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Peshkov before loading it onto a Turkish military cargo plane bound for Moscow.

Before the climate conference in Paris, there were huge "climate justice" demonstrations all over the world. The concept of climate justice is a new one that has emerged in recent years. It demands the addressing of production, consumption and commerce forms that generate climate change.  

A newspaper that is the disgrace of society's Islamic segment reported the killing of Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi with these words: 

"You were saying that the PKK was not a terror organization - Here's terror for you." 

U.S. President Barack Obama met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in Antalya on Nov. 15. That meeting was held under the shadow of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, but after this meeting, more incidents occurred one after the other. For instance, nine days later, Turkey downed a Russian plane.

It has to be seen if Sunday's EU-Turkey Summit, and the "Action Plan" it produced, re-energizes stalled ties and resuscitates Ankara's membership talks. There have been too many false starts and broken promises on both sides in the past. It is useful, therefore, to keep a pinch of salt handy.  

The most difficult issue to agree on during the G-20 Summit that took place last month in Antalya, Turkey, was climate change, a global challenge for which world leaders have gathered today in Paris.

This hardly surprises Turkish experts, as they thought the weakest statement of the G-20 came on the topic of climate change.

One of the 'Turkish Oscars,' the Pantene Golden Butterfly Award ceremony was held at Zorlu Center PSM in Istanbul, where the best of Turkish television and music received awards as voted by daily Hürriyet readers The 42nd Pantene Golden Butterfly Awards, which honored the best of Turkish television and music through the votes of daily Hürriyet readers, were presented on Nov.

Turkey's oldest and longest running film festival, the International Antalya Film Festival, kicked off its 52nd edition on Nov 29 The 52nd edition of the International Antalya Film Festival kicked off on Nov. 29 in the southern province of Antalya. 

Great Greek actor Minas Hatzisavvas has passed away on Monday at 20:29 at Evagelismos hospital where he was admitted a week ago with a blood haemorrhage after suffering a stroke.

The actor was rushed to the hospital in a coma and the doctors had characterized his condition as critical.

The unbelievable Twitter exchange which took place between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu started by an error made by Tsipras’s aide, Reuters reports citing a Greek official.