Free Bitcoin textbook from Princeton Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The Princeton Bitcoin Book by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder is a free download — it’s over 300 pages and is intended for people “looking to truly understand how Bitcoin works at a technical level and have a basic familiarity … Read more
https://transparency.twitter.com/removal-requests/2015/jul-dec ECHR fines Turkey for dismissing cases filed by 1999 quake victims The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Turkey for dismissing lawsuits filed by victims of a 1999 earthquake against contractors of buildings that collapsed in the quake that killed tens of thousands of people in northwestern Turkey GİYAV: 6,417 Children Exposed to Right … Read more
Istanbul among Europe’s ‘Big Four’ megacities: report VideoNewsUs–14 hours ago ANKARA – Istanbul now sits firmly among Europe’s “Big Four” megacities alongside London, Moscow and Paris, according to an international . Orhan Pamuk and Elif Shafak: Istanbul, city of dreams and nightmares World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Elif Shafak As his Museum of Innocence comes to … Read more
Turkey-US ties risk deteriorating further due to PYD row The first recent crisis between Turkey and the U.S. erupted in early October last year, after the latter announced that it had airdropped ammunition and other military equipment to Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD) despite Ankara’s strong objection Obscure Kurdish Group Claims Hand in Bombing Turks NYT > … Read more
Apple’s FBI Battle Is Complicated. Here’s What’s Really Going On Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter The case has polarized the nation—and also generated misinformation. WIRED’s here to separate the facts from the non-facts. Apple deems backdoor unnecessary after FBI screwup The Next Web by Bryan Clark After the Department of Justice today issued a motion to … Read more
State of the Art Report of the Internet in Turkey- 2015 Dedicated to the memory of Özgür Uçkan, whom we lost in 2015; he was a founding member of our Association and a devoted defender of rights and freedoms on Internet… As Alternatif Bilişim Derneği (Alternative Informatics Association) we have prepared “State of the Art … Read more
Dispute Over Kurds Threatens U.S.-Turkey Alliance –NYT > Turkey by By RICK GLADSTONE – Here are five questions about the Kurds and their role in the rapidly evolving events in Syria and Turkey. US: We couldn’t Determine Perpetrator of Ankara Attack Bianet :: English US has responded to the claim made by Davutoğlu and Erdoğan that the attack … Read more
Published on Feb 5, 2016 David Newheiser introduces his article ‘Foucault, Gary Becker and the Critique of Neoliberalism’ Theory, Culture & Society, 0263276415619997, first published on January 13, 2016 Read the article abstract here http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/early/…
Ankara bombing: blaming Kurds suits Erdoğan’s political ends World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Simon Tisdall Turkey’s move sends a message to the US and strengthens its argument for excluding Kurds from Syrian peace talks Ahmet Davutoğlu, Turkey’s prime minister, was keen to make a point. All the evidence suggested that the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection … Read more
On the anthropology of climate change Eurozine articles by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Dasa Licen Mainstream literature on globalization tends not to take the uniqueness of each locality seriously enough, says Thomas Hylland Eriksen. He explains how the anthropology of climate change is responding to the need for an analysis of the global situation seen from below. … Read more
Syrian national of YPG-links behind Ankara blast, says Turkish PM Hurriyet Daily News Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that a Syrian national with links to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) was identified as the perpetrator of the attack in Ankara Attack on Military Vehicle in Diyarbakır Bianet :: English Bomb attack has been carried … Read more
Locals protest mining efforts in Turkey’s northeast In the Black Sea province of Artvin, locals protested a company’s efforts to extract mine in Cerattepe region with the support of police and military officers in armed vehicles Attack against People Opposing Copper Mine in Artvin Bianet :: English Security forces have attacked with pepper gas on people keeping … Read more
Julian Assange’s 3.5 Year Detainment in Embassy Ruled Unlawful Wired Top Stories by Kim Zetter A UN body has determined that UK and Swedish authorities have unlawfully detained the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorean embassy, where he has been living in asylum since 2012 to avoid arrest. Julian Assange ‘arbitrarily held’ BBC News | Europe | World … Read more
Curfew Declared in İdil Bianet :: English The teachers in the district had been In-service-training invited to leave the district for an in-service-training earlier last week. Fresh curfew declared amid exodus from İdil An indefinite curfew has been declared in the southeastern Anatolian district of İdil amid an exodus that has lowered the town’s population by nearly … Read more
Şampanya, ekmek ve güller.. CHP Gençlik Kolları Kurultayının ardından… Bir göğüs hastalıkları uzmanı, solunum testi yapmak için şöyle bir öneride bulundu: doğum günü pastanızın üzerindeki 30 mumu bir nefeste söndürebiliyorsanız, akciğerlerinizde bir sorun yok demektir. Ciğerlerini havayla doldurup bir nefeste söndürebilir mi insan gençliğini? Pastanın üzerindeki mumlar çoğaldıkça hele de 30’u aşmaya yeltendikçe başlar o … Read more