News archive of November 2015

The Kosovo assembly was unable to hold a meeting on Monday after tear gas was thrown once again by opposition members.

They oppose the part of the EU-brokered Brussels agreement on the setting up of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

Some 64 earthquakes have occurred in 10 hours in the eastern province of Malatya, causing injures to one child in the area.

The first shock, with a magnitude of 5.1, occurred in Malatya's Hekimhan district at 2:28 a.m. on Nov. 30. One child sustained slight injuries when a wall collapsed.

Romania's National Ethics Council, an Education Ministry panel, is to analyse this week if Toba plagiarised material for his PhD thesis, after media reports alleged that he used papers posted on the internet without crediting their authors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not meet with Turkish counterpart Recep Erdogan during a UN climate summit in Paris they will both attend.

The Kremlin announced on Monday that no such meeting is planned to take place.

NATO has pledged support to Turkey over the downing of the Russian fighter jet which violated Turkish airspace on Nov. 24, while Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said there will be no apology for the incident. 

Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Ak?nc? has expressed his solidarity with the arrested editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Cumhuriyet and its Ankara bureau chief.

"Democracy, human rights, freedom of thought and expression and the right to access information are musts in being human," the president said on his Facebook page on Nov. 29. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to meet his Turkish counterpart Erdo?an at a climate summit in Paris on Nov. 30, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Peskov said Putin was likely to talk to U.S. President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the summit. 

Hürriyet's Sebati Karakurt photographs 'ghost town' Sinjar, recently freed of ISIL

Militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacked a commission investigating the killing of Diyarbak?r Bar Association head Tahir Elçi on Nov. 30. The incident marks the second attack on the group investigating the site where Elçi was killed in the southeastern city of Diyarbak?r's Sur district. 

Galatasaray faltered in its first game under new coach Mustafa Denizli on Nov. 29, being held to a 2-2 draw by Kas?mpa?a despite leading twice.

Spor Toto Super League leader Be?ikta? also dropped points on Nov. 29, losing 2-0 to high-flying Akhisar Belediye, while another title favorite, Fenerbahçe, was to play Trabzonspor in the week's final game late on Nov. 30.

45 percent of Serbia's young people are unemployed, their inactivity being a key reason, a conference on career management and counseling has heard.

Assistant Minister of Youth and Sport Snezana Klasnja said that Serbia's main problem was "inactivity and unemployment of young people and a lack of career promotion opportunities."