Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation An anonymous reader writes “Since the announcement malicious actors have been leaking software library data and using one of the several provided PoC codes to attack the massive amount of services available on the internet. One of the more complicated issues is that the OpenSSL patches were not in-line with … Read more
BTK Insists on YouTube Ban Bianet :: English Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) stated that YouTube ban must continue.Telecommunication lawyer Gökhan Ahi said that BTK insisted on YouTube ban arbitrarily despite the court verdict. AKP deputy applies to Constitutional Court for blocking Twitter Hurriyet Daily News Turkish Parliament Constitution Commission?s head Burhan Kuzu applied … Read more
Sad. Turkish photographer Kerim Ökten dies after lightning hits his bike http://bit.ly/1k9rqxQ His great 2013 pic pic.twitter.com/QueUWwwvLZ Acclaimed Turkish photoreporter dies after thunder hits his bike Kerim Ökten, one of Turkey?s most talented photoreporters, passed away April 10 after suffering from a road accident caused by thunder while riding his bike in the northern Çanakkale … Read more
Turkey does not need Europe and its extensions, PM Erdoğan?s advisor suggests Hurriyet Daily News Turkey does not need Europe and its ‘material-moral extensions,’ PM Erdoğan?s top adviser, Yiğit Bulut, said Turkey, US dismiss Seymour Hersh report Hurriyet Daily News Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has dismissed an article by Seymour Hersh, which claimed … Read more
Alakart demokrasi yürümez Yolsuzlukları görmezden geldiği söylenen AKP seçmeninin Tayyip Erdoğan?a verdiği güvenoyu eski bir tartışmayı depreştirdi. ?Seçmen cebindeki paraya, tükettiğine, arabasına ve evine bakar, gerisi onu ilgilendirmez? önkabûlünde özetlenen umursamazlık. Başbakan?ın dilindeki çanak-çömlek, Twitter-Mwitter lakırdılarının iyi anlattığı yaygın vurdumduymazlık. Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi?nin kalkınmayı adalet bilerek ve pazarlayarak adalet dersinden çift dikiş gittiğini yazıp dururum. … Read more
Data Retention Directive Invalid, says EU’s Highest Court EFF.org Updates by Danny O’Brien and Danny O’Brien Today the European Court of Justice declared the EU’s Data Retention Directive invalid, declaring that the mass collection of Internet data in Europe entailed a “wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to respect for private … Read more
Turkey’s Higher Election Board rejects CHP?s appeal in Ankara Hurriyet Daily News The CHP’s appeal to cancel the results of the contested local election has been rejected Debate mounts over attack on CHP leader Hurriyet Daily News The fallout from the assault on the main opposition CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu continues, with the opposition asking whether … Read more
High court?s Twitter verdict should be overturned: Turkish PM Hurriyet Daily News Reiterating his government?s harsh criticisms against the Constitutional Court?s ruling lifting a ban on Twitter, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called the ruling wrong Social media firms evade tax: Turkish finance minister Hurriyet Daily News Social media companies yield undeserved gains in … Read more
CHP leader?s attacker expelled from ruling AKP, deputy head says Hurriyet Daily News The man who attacked main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was a member of the Justice and Development Party Assailant says the attack was premeditated after being annoyed by CHP leader?s speeches Hurriyet Daily News The attacker reportedly planned the assault a month ago … Read more
AKP mayor in Bingöl refuses to let women hold positions at municipal council Hurriyet Daily News The new AKP mayor in the eastern town has refused to let women elected to the local municipal council hold positions of responsibility on religious grounds ******* Graft suspect Halkbank ex-manager appointed as new board member of state-run Ziraat … Read more
ETHEM SARISÜLÜK CASE: Police Şahbaz Ordered to Stand Trial Bianet :: English Ankara 6th High Criminal Court ordered top suspect police officer Şahbaz to attend the next hearing on the case of Ethem Sarısülük, a Gezi Resistance protestor who was shot dead by police fire. Murder suspect absent again in Gezi Park protester murder case … Read more
Erdoğan now at odds with Constitutional Court Hurriyet Daily News The tendency actually started before the March 30 local elections, but it has continued afterward, despite the 45 percent Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey’s top judge downplays concerns over elections Hurriyet Daily News Constitutional Court President Haşim Kılıç has sought to temper concerns over … Read more
James Hardy @jameshardy61 Journalists protest at BBC HQ over threat to free press worldwide and arrest of AlJaz team in Egypt #freejournalismpic.twitter.com/GErzDVNDlf On the record: Journalism is not a crime AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Colleagues of detained Al Jazeera journalists press demands for their release, 100 days after their arrest in Egypt. UNESCO Mapping World … Read more
A Broken Silhouette stambouline by Emily Neumeier Istanbul’s new Metro Bridge and the political battle over the city’s historic panorama İstanbul’s mega projects to kill nature and environment Today’s Zaman Present at the press conference were, among others, Professor Nuran Zeren Gülersoy (İstanbul Technical University [İTÜ] architecture faculty, city and Ottoman İstanbul in 10 iconic … Read more
YouTube files complaint to Turkish Constitutional Court Hurriyet Daily News YouTube has filed an individual complaint to the Turkish Constitutional Court against the ongoing ban through its lawyer Turkey?s image hurt by graft claims: US envoy The US top diplomat in Turkey issues a veiled rebuke of the Turkish government for its recent censorship of Twitter … Read more