Two fifths of Europeans are digitally illiterate EurActiv.com by Catherine Stupp The European Commission wants to sink the 40% average of people who have little or no ability to use technology. Debate: The Euro 2016 in France: hopes, fears and celebrations euro|topics The Euro 2016 European football championship kicks off on Friday. A security force of 90,000 … Read more
As AKP leadership fails to produce alternative successful educational sites, it moves to destroy what remains as “old Turkey”s success stories. Minister of Education specially appointed headmasters to many of the leading high schools and after a year, their mess is protested by graduating students. It started in Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (protest video here) and followed by … Read more
Mete Sohtaoğlu@metesohtaoglu New security checkpoints at #İstiklal Street in #Beyoğlu, #Taksim #İstanbul, #Turkey Istanbul at Night ‘Jazz in Ramadan’ in Istanbul for seventh time Istanbul’s Ramadan tradition of Jazz in Ramadan is back for a seventh straight year with big names in the world of jazz appearing for evening performances throughout the holy month
Kılıçdaroğlu Threatened with Bullet Bianet :: English One person threw bullet at CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu at the funeral of the two police officers who lost their lives in the bomb attack launched in Vezneciler. Main opposition head Kılıçdaroğlu faces protests at police officers’ funeral in Istanbul Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was protested … Read more
AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin: In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The resolution failed by exactly 39 votes: 2,423-2,384 (50.4%-49.6%)—a statistical dead heat. David Palumbo-Liu, Steven Salaita, Charlotte Silver, … Read more
Turkey’s Erdoğan cuts US trip short without attending Muhammad Ali burial Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cut short a trip on June 9 to the United States, where he had gone to attend the funeral ceremony of boxing legend Muhammad Ali Erdoğan Leaves US Before Muhammad Ali Buried Bianet :: English President Erdoğan has returned to Turkey … Read more