News archive of November 2015

Turkey's prime minister has said the pistol found next to the dead body of Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer who was killed during clashes after the killing of two police officers in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was the same weapon used in the first incident.

Turkey's prime minister has said the pistol found next to the dead body of Tahir Elçi, a prominent lawyer who was killed during clashes after the killing of two police officers in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, was the same weapon used in the first incident.

The Heads of State or Government of the EU member states and Turkey will meet in Brussels on Sunday to discuss measures on managing the ongoing migration crisis.

The summit, which was convened by European Council President Donald Tusk, is expected to mark an important step in the relations between the EU and Turkey.

A clash between Macedonian police and migrants left up to forty people injured at the Macedonian-Greek border on Saturday.

A group of economic migrants not allowed to enter Macedonia from Greece attacked policemen by throwing stones and other objects.

Reports suggest that Macedonian police briefly entered Greece and fired stun grenades on the discontent migrants.

Four easyJet planes scrawled with Arabic graffiti have sparred an investigation in France. The airports where the planes were vandalized cannot be identified for security reasons, however the fact that perpetrators were able to get to the planes has spread panic.

The latest trend to sweep through the internet is the ISIS duck craze that superimposes rubber duck heads on to images of ISIS fighters. The craze has gone viral through Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere.

Turkey has initiated the process to hand over the body of a Russian pilot to Moscow after his jet was shot down by Turkey, a day before a United Nations climate conference starts in Paris that could bring a "saddened" Turkish president and his Russian counterpart together. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has stated the body of the Russian pilot was brought to Turkey to be handed over to Russia, in a press briefing held at Ankara's airport prior to his departure for the EU-Turkey Summit. 

The Times report to a reported study that found that Greek students sell their bodies for tyropita (a type of layered cheese puff pastry) went wild on social media even after professor Gregory Lazos denied the article.

Greeks viewed the erroneous reportage with good humor and without underestimating the value of the mouth-watering humble tyropita.

– Hi, I’d like a #tyropita.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Saturday a decree introducing a set of economic sanctions against Turkey.

The sanctions come in response to the downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane by Turkish F-16 fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday.