In Photos: 13 of Turkey’s historic heritage sites destroyed by erroneous ‘restoration’ The “SpongeBob” castle in Istanbul has rekindled debate on Turkey’s failure to protect heritage sites. Click through to see 13 sites across Turkey, destroyed due to erroneous restorations In photos: 25 hilarious reactions to the tourist beating Turkish shopkeepers ‘If this tourist forms a political … Read more
Global Rights Groups Call for Turkey to Release Detained VICE News Journalists VICE News – Aug 30, 12:25 PM Global rights groups have issued calls seeking the immediate release of four journalists working for VICE News who have been detained in Turkey since Thursday without being charged. Turkish authorities took British journalists Jake Hanrahan and … Read more
The BBC, the press and online news open Democracy News Analysis – by Douglas McCabe, Leo Watkins and Alice Enders Scaling back the BBC will damage the UK’s sole source of impartial, quality and trusted news, whose independence is valued by users in the UK and around the world. This report was produced by Enders Analysis and … Read more
Turkey’s first election gov’t comes with more firsts Turkish PM Davutoğlu’s interim government, approved by President Erdoğan, is the first one that a Kurdish problem-focused party takes part. It also features the first minister wearing the Islamic headscarf. MAIN FOCUS: Turkey seeks caretaker government | 26/08/2015 euro|topics Following the failure to form a government, the Turkish President … Read more
IFLA Publishes a Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment At its 14 August 2015 meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the IFLA Governing Board endorsed an IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment. The FAIFE Committee oversaw preparation of the Statement and benefitted from consultation with IFLA units and various Internet civil liberties advocacy … Read more
“İleri” web araçları ERKAN SAKA Yaz biterken dijital alet çantanızı gözden geçirip zenginleştirmeye ne dersiniz? Bu yazı daha önce hazırladığım Sosyal ağlar ve Timelines ya da güvenlik araçları dizisinin bir parçası. Yazın şu son günlerinde dijital araçların bize sunduğu zenginliğin başka bir boyutuna bakalım dedim. Burada “ileri” kelimesini italik harfler içinde kullanıyorum çünkü bu araçların … Read more
So many groups I love to listen to and attend their performance.. All starts up in a few hours. Here are the bands, the fest lasts three days, until Monday night (!) More info here
EFF Announces 2015 Pioneer Award Winners: Caspar Bowden, Citizen Lab, Anriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra EFF.org Updates by Rebecca Jeschke Ceremony for Honorees on September 24 in San Francisco San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the distinguished winners of the 2015 Pioneer Awards: the … Read more
Two British journalists detained in southeast Turkey Turkish police have detained two British journalists from Vice News for reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast without government accreditation, security sources said on Aug. 28. Most Turks see Erdoğan as culprit in failure of coalition talks: Poll For more than 57 percent of 29,000 people who voted in … Read more
Twitter must be less cowardly and fight for activists The Next Web by Abhimanyu Ghoshal For years, Twitter has been the go-to communication medium for social and political activists and commentators. Its format is well suited to broadcasting ideas to a large audience in real-time. During the Arab Spring, Twitter proved to be an effective tool … Read more
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General Election Timetable Announced Bianet :: English Timetable of general elections which will be held on November 1st has been announced. Poll shows Turkey’s AKP short of votes needed to form government alone Ruling AKP is seen falling short of the votes needed to form a single-party gov’t in a snap election on Nov. 1 with 41.7 … Read more
I don’t believe anyone really wondered but I have paid a 5 day visit to Bayburt this month… Here is a Google Photos collection from the trip. Baksı Müzesi düşündüğümden görkemli olmuş… A photo posted by Erkan Saka (@sakaerka) on Aug 17, 2015 at 6:04am PDT I could finally visit the Baksı museum: Baksı Museum celebrates … Read more
Passengers is a game about the human cost of Europe’s migrant crisis Boing Boing by Leigh Alexander The ongoing European Migrant Crisis sees death tolls rise as refugees take expensive and often extremely-dangerous trips with smugglers, often to be displaced again or even arrested when they arrive. Europe faces up to flight safety threat posed by drones … Read more
New president appointed to Turkish communications board ahead of key 4.5G tender Ömer Fatih Sayan was appointed the head of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) on Aug. 25, ahead of a key telecommunications tender on Aug. 26 The three most innovative Turkish women of 2015 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review magazine … Read more