Mass media

The solidarity among colleagues on difficult days has always moved me. Even if some colleagues have opposing opinions, in these tough days these differences should be forgotten. 

On the evening of the Kelebek Awards, the artists who took the stage all referred to Can Dündar, the imprisoned journalist, and honored him. 

Israel tested secretly, with Greece’s permission, ways of defeating an advanced S-300 air-defence system that Russia has deployed in the Middle East, as Reuters reports citing military and diplomatic sources said.

Pamela Anderson, aged 48, will be the Playboy centerfold to end all nude Playboy centerfolds. The first nude was with Marilyn Monroe in 1953. Now Anderson, who has appeared nude for the magazine a record 13 times will be the last cover girl to not cover up.

She says that she was chuffed to get a call from Hugh Hefner’s attorney who said: “We don’t want anybody else!”

Today's Zaman Editor-in-Chief Bülent Kene? announced his resignation on Dec. 3 over "government pressure" and personal lawsuits against him.

At least sixteen people were killed and another three injured in a Molotov cocktail attack targeting a nightclub in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Friday.

According to Cairo Post newspaper, three masked men threw the firebomb in the nightclub located in the Agouza area in the city centre and then fled the scene.

Turkey will regret "more than once" about its shooting down of a Russian bomber jet near the Syrian-Turkish border, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Dec. 3. 

Three journalists from daily BirGün face up to four years in prison on charges of "insulting the Turkish president" while a columnist from daily Taraf has testified on the same charge.

If the fate of 17 state-owned companies of strategic importance is not solved by the expiration of deadlines, "it might be a problem and a blow for the budget."

Serbian Minister of Economy Zeljko Sertic stated this on Wednesday, according to Tanjug, and added that his ministry "will not ask for extension of the deadlines."

Turkey rarely runs out of bitter political irony. At exactly the same moment as Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu was reading out his government's program in parliament live on television, a news channel ran the typical "breaking news" ticker: "Prosecutors demand up to 20 years in jail for [Cumhuriyet] journalists [Can] Dündar and [Erdem] Gül." As the ticker kept running on the screen, Mr.

Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Pulur has laid to rest in Istanbul following a funeral in Istanbul that drew a large number of journalists and lawmakers.

Pulur died from organ failure at Florence Nightingale Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for the past six months.