Popular website ordered to remove entries on PM’s aide who kicked Soma mourner Popular Turkish website Ekşi Sözlük has deleted entries on the Turkish PM’s aide who made headlines after kicking a mourner in the mine disaster-struck town of Soma, upon a court order **** Jurists criticize charges over ‘insulting’ president, say matter is ‘political’ The growing … Read more
Clashes btw PKK and security forces burn historic mosque in southeast Turkey A fire broke out in an Ottoman-era mosque in the Sur district of southeastern Diyarbakır province on Dec. 7 when outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants reportedly attacked it with hand-made explosives HDP laments judicial ‘inaction’ over lawyer Tahir Elçi’s murder The Peoples’ Democratic Party … Read more
Far right National Front dominates first round of French regional vote Mashable! France’s far right National Front won more support than any other party in the first round of regional elections Sunday, according to polling agency projections, in a new boost for Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration strategy and a new blow to President Francois Hollande’s Socialists. … Read more
No weapons found, no armed struggle. Just killed by police action… News in Turkish
Scholars and activists stand in solidarity with shuttered research-sharing sites Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow This week, the scholarly publishing giant Elsevier filed suit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, two sites where academics and researchers practiced civil disobedience by sharing the academic papers that Elsevier claims — despite having acquired the papers for free from researchers, … Read more