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1300 Turkish citizens are sued for insulting Erdoğan in the last 16 months…
Presidents by number of "insult" lawsuits. As you can see, Erdoğan feels permanently insulted: pic.twitter.com/ct9K9ckhMS — Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) December 5, 2015 News in Turkish here Is Gollum Good or... Read more
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Peter Jackson also involved in Turkey’s Gollum debate…
Man faces two years in prison for saying Turkey’s president looks like Gollum Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder A Turkish doctor is on trial for sharing a meme with side-by-side photos... Read more
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Gollum experts needed in Turkey… EFD Rights Watch…
Turkish court asks ‘Gollum experts’ if Erdoğan comparison is insult World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Kareem Shaheen in Beirut Trial of man who compared president to Lord of the Rings... Read more
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Thousands meet at #Cumhuriyet daily to give support for jailed journalists…
[View the story “Thousands meet at #Cumhuriyet daily to give support for jailed journalists… ” on... Read more
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Yet another dark day for Turkish media: Bülent Mumay fired, Can Dündar, Erdem Gül and Bülent Keneş face jail…
Prosecutor demands arrests of two journalists for intelligence truck story An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded the arrest of daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the newspaper’s Ankara representative Erdem Gül on... Read more
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14-day-long curfew in Nusaybin lifted WHILE IHD: 617 children died in Turkey in 11 months…
IHD: 617 children died in Turkey in 11 months KARAKOK OTONOMU TR/CH 3,861 children suffered a violation of their rights and 617 others died during the 11 months of 2015.... Read more
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For the record, In “Turkey’s new cabinet, Erdoğan’s son-in-law included, Babacan outed…
Turkey lines up cabinet with Erdogan’s son-in-law in key post EurActiv.com Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu today (24 November) unveiled a new cabinet stacked with loyal allies of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – including... Read more
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Gramsci would love it. According to a survey, Turks love the hegemony, least likely to criticize the government…
RIGHTS – Turkey moves down five places in global gender gap rankings hurriyetdailynews.com Turkey has moved down five places, ranking 130th among 145 countries, in the “Global Gender Gap Index”... Read more
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Turkish Leaders and their Level of English (Comedy/ Video)
How are you sadghasşgsfalsdf koptum resmen ya 😀 pic.twitter.com/4AfdcJ5m7J — Prof.Yrd.Dr.Brain (@williamSidik) 19 Kasım... Read more
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Cengiz Aktar: Biat, terk, itiraz
Biat, terk, itiraz Albert Hirschman’ın 1970 tarihli Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States (Terk, itiraz ve sadakat: şirketler, örgütler ve devletlerin gerilemesine tepkiler)... Read more
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“The (Turkish) State has arrived”. Scenes after the curfew in Silvan… An EFD Rights Watch….
12-day curfew in Turkey’s Silvan ends, governor reveals death toll A 12-day curfew in the three neighborhoods of the Silvan town in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır was lifted,... Read more
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Turkey welcomes #G20 Summit with a police raid at Zaman daily…
#Turkish police raid #Zaman newspaper’s headquarters to see if Özgür Bugün’s printed there Turkish columnist faces probe for ‘insulting Erdoğan’ Two separate probes have been launched against Cengiz Çandar, Radikal news... Read more
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A brief semiological analysis of an Erdoğan photo
This photo was released officially after Erdoğan’s talk with Obama before the G -20 Summit. The photo with what it contains and with what not contains gives out much to... Read more
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A Kurdish town, Silvan, under curfew for 9 days…
Six people were killed during a curfew that has been in place in Diyarbakır’s Silvan district since Nov. 2. (Photo: Cihan) Constant gunshots heard from Silvan, where 6 killed under... Read more
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Street views from the anniversary of Atatürk’s death #10Kasım
More here Turkey remembers Mustafa Kemal Atatürk on his death anniversary Thousands flocked to the mausoleum of the Turkish Republic’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in Ankara to commemorate the leader who... Read more