Cengiz Aktar: Türk Standartları

Türk Standartları Mâlum önümüzde 2013 sonundan itibaren üç seçim var. Başbakan?ın seçimlerle ilgili stratejisi belli. Milliyetçi seçmeni (artık kimse bu) sıvazlayarak üç seçimi kazanmak ve memleketin istikbalini en aşağı bir on yıl daha belirlemek. Strateji uygulamada. Takvim açısından bu, en aşağı 2015?teki milletvekili seçimlerine kadar millîci mizacın hoşuna gitmeyecek ciddî reform yapılmayacak demek. Ya da 2002-2004 … Read more

CPJ’s answers to critics on Turkey report… Hunger strikes at a critical state… EFD Rights Watch…

Questions about CPJ’s Turkey report? Here, our answers. – Blog – Committee to Protect Journalists Questions about CPJ’s Turkey report? Here, our answers. By Joel Simon/CPJ Executive Director Last week’s release of CPJ’s report on Turkey’s press freedom crisis generated widespread domestic media coverage and sparked a robust public debate. The response from Turkish journalists … Read more

SosyalKafa S02-E04 bu gece… @SosyalKafa ‘da bu gece ECHO, Hollaback ve “Özgür Habercilik” var;)

 Sosyal Kafa?da bu hafta, vatandaş haberciliği ile 2012 ABD seçim sürecini, TV?nin sosyal medyadaki etkileşimini konuşuyoruz ve sokaktaki canımızı korumak için güçlerimizi birleştiriyoruz…  Bu akşam, Ezgi Çinçin ve Nihan Güneli, ile taciz ve şiddeti sona erdirmek amacıyla başlatılan ?Canımız Sokakta : Hollaback İstanbul? projesinin detaylarını, Cem Aydoğdu ve Engin Önder ile Yaratıcı Fikirler Enstitüsü tarafından … Read more

by Facebook scare, Obama may target new, older and scared voters but hails to the dark side;) An American elections roundup…

Obama To MTV: No Facebook Profile For Malia from All Facebook by Jennifer Moire   Infographic of shifting US political ideologies from kottke.org by Jason Kottke It was not my intent to be so politically oriented this morning but here we are. This is a chart that tracks the ideologies of the Democratic and Republican … Read more

News of police intervention in Ankara against Republic Day marchers… to be updated…

Google’s doodle for the Republic Day.   Thanks to AKP leadership’s provocative approach, Kemalists are becoming another victim of Turkish State… A few photos here. Even the main opposition party leader, Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu has been pepper-sprayed… Police, protesters clash at Republic Day march in Turkey – CNN.com Turkish police use teargas to break up pro-secular … Read more

A video: Crowd whistling Turkish bureucrats in WTA Year-End Tennis Championships Istanbul 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luc894hXAhU

Orhan Pamuk: Europe is turning away from Turkey ? and the rest of the world

Europe is turning away from Turkey ? and the rest of the world | Orhan Pamuk from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Orhan Pamuk Whatever happened to liberté, égalité, fraternité? Fear of Muslims is putting Europe’s secular tradition at risk I have spent my entire life at the borders of continental Europe. From the … Read more

Sosyal Medya alanında çalışan ajanslar (45): ?sosyalmedya.in? (@smtakip)

Erkan?s Field Diary sosyal medya alanında çalışan ajansları tanıtan seriye devam ediyor. sakaerka@gmail.com adresine logo, iletişim bilgileri, kısa tanıtım, varsa birkaç ekip fotosu gönderirseniz sizin ajansı da bu seriye dahil etmek isteriz? Ya da en azından haberdar ediniz;)   Son günlerde adını Türkiye’nin ilk Twitter arşivini kurmasıyla duyurdu. Ajans kendini şöyle tanıtıyor: 2000 yılından bu … Read more

EFF: 4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking….

4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking from EFF.org Updates by Dan Auerbach Whoa, you aren’t browsing with Javascript, congratulations! You probably don’t need this tutorial, which will look broken for you. Just install an adblocker with a privacy/tracking protection list, block third-party cookies, block referers, and install HTTPS Everywhere. ***** The Pirate Bay ditches … Read more

A belated Fazıl Say trial roundup

Renowned Turkish pianist’s trial postponed from Hurriyet Daily News Famous Turkish pianist Fazıl Say’s trial for remarks he made on Twitter allegedly supporting atheism.. Renowned Turkish pianist to appear on trial for insulting religion from Hurriyet Daily News Famous Turkish pianist Fazıl Say’s trial for remarks he made on Twitter allegedly supporting atheism   Fazil … Read more

Bayram gift from CPJ to Turkish government: “Turkey?s Press Freedom Crisis”

Turkey accused of pursuing campaign of intimidation against media from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Simon Tisdall Two independent reports have found evidence of a pattern of harassment against writers and broadcasters Ankara is pursuing a systematic campaign of intimidation against the Turkish media, including the prosecution and jailing of writers, and demands for … Read more

Iceland and her crowdsourced constitution. Latest news roundup

  Crowdsourcing Iceland’s Constitution New York Times (blog) REYKJAVIK ? Icelanders like to do it their way. Where else do you get to dine on minke whale and puffin and routinely address the prime minister by her first name? True to their tradition of doing things differently, Europe’s most sparsely populated   Finland’s Next Laws To Emerge … Read more

Cengiz Aktar: Doğu?nun modernite paradoksu

Doğu?nun modernite paradoksu   Başbakan?ın Dışpolitika Başdanışmanı İbrahim Kalın nisanda Yeni Şafak mülâkatında şöyle diyor: ?Klasik modernite paradigmasının yerini küreselleşmeye bırakması ve Soğuk Savaş?ın sona ermesiyle beraber başlayan süreci ben tarihin normalleşmesi olarak görüyorum. Modernitenin yükselişi Avrupa merkezci bir yükselişti ve dünyanın tek bir merkezden yeniden inşa edilmesiydi. Bu proje derin adaletsizlikler, küresel eşitsizlikler üretti. … Read more

Erkan’s Berlin/Germany trip starts tomorrow (22-28 October)

I will attend a workshop that I am really excited about. The first part took place two years ago in Istanbul, Boğaziçi University and now comes the part 2 at Humboldt University at Berlin, Department of European Ethnology and Collaborative Research: Re-Ordering the Social ? Producing Change: Contemporary Ethnographies of Turkey in an Interconnected World … Read more

Taken 2 (2012): Orientalising Istanbul…

After all debates on Orientalism, not much progress in American blockbusters. Istanbul that is represented in Taken 2 looks like somewhere from 1970s. Check out the police cars. Such old cars…. and you will throw grenades in one of the most crowded corners of the city and they will let you throw more:) … And … Read more