News archive of November 2015

Three banks were on alert all weekend after hackers made attempts to intrude into their security systems. The National Intelligence Service, Cyber Crime Squad of Greece and Bank of Greece worked with bank officials all weekend in an attempt to stall off the hackers, who are believed to be coming from Russian say sources.

Bank of Greece Governor Yiannis Stournaras called on the country’s party leaders on Sunday to maintain their political consensus and help pull Greece out of the financial crisis once and for all.

Russian authorities received the coffin of the Russian pilot shot down by Turkish F-16s from GATA military hospital in Ankara on Nov. 30 and traveled to the capital's Esenbo?a airport to prepare it for transport to Russia, sources have told Hürriyet Daily News.

Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.

A group of civil society organisations gathered in the South East Europe Sustainable Energy Policy Program launched a video game version of the South East Europe 2050 Energy Model on Monday, as UN climate change talks open in Paris.

The goal is to make audiences in the region aware of choices about the energy and environmental development of their countries.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has claimed that a legal investigation into Syria-bound intelligence trucks primarily targeted himself, then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and top intelligence chief Hakan Fidan.

"One of the primary targets of the incident was me," Davuto?lu told a group of journalists en route to Brussels from Ankara on Nov. 29.

The Kosovo police arrested Albin Kurti, founder of radical opposition Self-Determination party, and another 94 activists, in Pristina on Saturday.

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Belgrade two times on Sunday, Tanjug is reporting.

During the second meeting the president "offered full support to the prime minister's uncompromising fight against corruption and crime."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed his readiness to hold a meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over the incident of last week when Ankara fighter jets downed a Russia plane for allegedly violating Turkish airspace.

Standing completely still, his eyes fixed on the flowers, flags and flickering candles at his feet, Barack Obama paid his own silent tribute to those who died in Paris's Bataclan concert venue.