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Turkish Football Federation in big time whitewashing (of its own mess)
TweetShare via emailAfter all buzz, some football players are used as scapegoats, some symbolic charges and all teams are relieved… So all year drama seems to be about putting FB... Read more
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the EU propaganda video shows that EU cannot deal with the enlargement…
TweetShare via email It seems that those who authorized the video above has no idea about semiology or has nothing to do all studies done in Cultural Studies. With a good... Read more
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Why I cannot agree with Prof. Turkle’s TEDTalk on social media… And a cyberculture roundup…
TweetShare via emailRecently, Professor Sherry Turkle made a TED Talk. She argued: Turkle, a psychologist who leads MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that while our constant communication and... Read more
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“Will Turkey lose altitude if Paul Auster does not come?” In fact, yes…
TweetShare via email PM Erdoğan yesterday publicly declared that they are a conservative democratic party and they would like to breed new religious generations. I am not sure about the... Read more
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Erkan quoted in The Media Line piece: “Turkey’s Jails Filling Up With Journalists”
TweetShare via emailTURKEY’S JAILS FILLING UP WITH JOURNALISTS Kurdish reporter’s arrest over weekend is the latest in wave of detentions Aziz Tekin, a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat,... Read more
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#hrantdink Welcome to the new Turkish Deep State: there is no organized crime in Hrant Dink Assasination….
TweetShare via email Despite apparent organizational background and strong signs of state officials’ involvement, Hrant Dink trial ended up declaring that this assassination had no organization behind and it was... Read more
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A hypocritical apology will not sooth Dersim anxieties…
TweetShare via email CHP is a hopeless can and they cannot apologize for a massacre from their golden age period. AKP seizes this moment and forces them to the corner.... Read more
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Just before the start of filtering regime, Conservative/Islamist campaign against Ekşisözlük #eksisozlugedokunma vs. #eksisozlukkapatilsin
TweetShare via email Mehmet Baransu, who is known to have published leaked military documents at Taraf daily, and Rasih Yılmaz, a Bugün columnist, movie critic and an author, led a... Read more
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it looks like Turkish authorities aim to contain opposition in social media…
TweetShare via email We happened to see a few signs in the last few days that Turkish authorities are strategizing to contain opposition in Turkish cybersphere. While Turkey’s minister in... Read more
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Earthquake in Van: Arrogant gov’t refuses foreign help; Both Aid and hate speech mobilized in social media…
TweetShare via email unfortunately not only aid sources are mobilized but also hate speech against Kurds… But in the last analysis, I can assure you that humanitarian attempts dominated the... Read more
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This time, 26 soldiers…Bankruptcy of government’s recent rhetorical moves…
TweetShare via email Photo from Hurriyet archives. By the time I have arrived Diyarbakır, right now i am waiting for some friends with whom I will go to Mardin to... Read more
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Bir sansür de Radikal editörlerinden geldi…
TweetShare via email Geçen hafta sorularına verdiğim cevapları yayınlamayan UHIM’den bahsetmiştim. “islamcılar”dan sonra “liberaller”den de bir “sansür” yedim. Sevgili Ecem’in haberinde sanırım editörlerin kırpışına kurban gitti söylediklerim. Haber burada: Medyada... Read more
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Some few and brief ideas: Why is Turkish government messing with Internet? #22agustos
TweetShare via emailWhy is Turkish government messing with Internet? Turkish Prime Minister: Facebook Is ‘Ugly Technology’ 1. Because it is an unruly environment. PM Erdoğan’s intense media bashing along... Read more
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Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener arrested. An unfortunate turn of events in the Ergenekon Case.
TweetShare via emailIt is very hard to believe that our colleague and friend Ahmet Şık is an Ergenekon member. He devoted his life to struggle for human rights issues in... Read more
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Old Establishment’s Islamist leader Mr. Erbakan dies at 85.
TweetShare via email I could probably be more sympathetic if Necmettin Erbakan did not prevent Numan Kurtulmuş‘ ascendancy at Saadet Party despite his old age and illness. But he did... Read more
