Some of the best 2014 selfies might be from Turkey…
From the curation of Duygu Arslan at Listelist More can be found here….
Day: December 6, 2014
Anthropologists protest police brutality at AAA.
via (More photos by Marco Hill here) Link: http://anthropoliteia.net/2014/12/05/die-in-protest-at-the-2014-american-anthropological-association-meetings/ ************* Anthropology: It’s still white public space–An interview with Karen Brodkin (Part II) Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog This is the second part of my interview with Karen Brodkin. Part I is here. Ryan Anderson: All of this has me … Read more
Erdoğan defends police brutality and claims Turkey avoided being Ukraine, Egypt…
Turkey, Egypt in fresh quarrel after Erdoğan’s remarks The foreign ministries of Turkey and Egypt have traded a fresh round of accusatory statements, with the latter condemning Erdoğan’s latest remarks and his ‘flagrant intervention’ in Egypt’s internal affairs Turkey avoided being Ukraine, Egypt: Erdoğan Turkish police has behaved softly to demonstrators when compared to the U.S. … Read more
Despite more transparency claims “Turkey falls behind in global corruption index…
Turkey falls behind in global corruption index Turkey slumps alarmingly in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index Turkey’s Growing Corruption Problem Is Getting Harder to Hide Global Voices Online by Ece Basay Money in a shoebox. Viral image. In the last twelve months, the Turkish state has appeared significantly more corrupt. That is the underlying message of … Read more
Erdoğan’s Palace. No ones knows how much it costed and how many rooms it has…
Erdoğan today announced The Palace has 1150 rooms. Adding another number… Divulging cost of Ak Saray would hurt Turkey’s economy, housing administration says ‘If the reason for TOKİ’s refusal to announce the cost is that it will hurt the economy, this shows that there would be speculation on the stock exchange if [it] were announced,’ … Read more
Freedom House (@freedomhousedc) releases Freedom on the Net 2014 report… Cyberculture agenda…
Report link here Turkey partly free ************** Angela Merkel calls for end to net neutrality Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The German Chancellor — whose party is closely aligned with the telcoms sector — says she wants a two-tier Internet; on the “fast” Internet, carriers will be allowed to slow down access to services that haven’t paid … Read more