7th Trans Pride Week Starts Memorializing Orlando Massacre Bianet :: English 7th Trans Pride week started today. Trans said, “The offensive which was launched on Yezidi, Kurdish, Nusayri, Turkmen and Christian societies in the past now targets LGBTIs in the other end of the world”. Facebook activated its first Safety Check in the United States after … Read more
From time to time, someone reaches me about a particular online tool/ resource. I am glad that Canva reached me since I already like and recommend it regularly. It is at least a good tool for beginners and amateurs on design tools. For those who haven’t heard it yet: Canva makes graphic design amazingly simple for … Read more
Travel warning for German MPs of Turkish origin AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) MPs reportedly given more protection and asked not to travel to Turkey after Germany recognises Armenian “genocide”. These are the 18 most corrupt countries in the developed world independent.co.uk – Jun 5, 7:59 AM Every year, Transparency International, the global anticorruption coalition, releases … Read more
KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address TorrentFreak With millions of visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is currently the mostvisited torrent site on the Internet. Uber vs. Europe continues: Two executives convicted in France Mashable! A French court has convicted and fined Uber and two of its executives for deceptive commercial practices and illegal business … Read more
Gawker Media has filed for bankruptcy and is putting itself up for sale (possibly to Ziff Davis) Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy on Friday, after saying in Florida court that itcannot pay the $140.1 million awarded to actor Hulk Hogan in a case bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter … Read more
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
BBC unveils a collection of its first virtual reality experiments Journalism.co.uk ‘Easter Rising: Voice of a rebel’, ‘We wait’ and ‘Home’ are set to premiere at Sheffield DocFest on 10 June Watchdog That Shepherded Panama Papers Now Constrained by Finances New York Times … and pursue journalism at a time when traditional news organizations, and even … Read more
Car Bomb in Istanbul Kills 11 NYT > Turkey by By CEYLAN YEGINSU Explosives in a parked car were detonated by remote control as a police shuttle bus passed through the historic quarter of Beyazit during rush hour. Deadly Blast Strikes Istanbul NYT > Turkey Amateur video shows the wreckage from an explosion in the city center … Read more
Hakkımızda BİZ KİMİZ Müziği seven, müziğin yaşadığımız coğrafyadaki tarihiyle ilgilenen birkaç arkadaşız. Rock, ortak beğenimiz. Dahası bu müzik türünün buralardaki tarihi ve gelişimine tanıklık ettik. Dinledik, izledik, topladık, derledik ve çeşitli biçimlerde sunduk. Bulduklarımızı sunarken Radyo, televizyon, basılı yayın mecralarını kullandık. Güven Erkin Erkal; 1986’da müzik grupları ve solistlerinin konserlerini düzenleyerek işe başladı. İlk bağımsız … Read more
Diploma, apolet, rulet Oğlunun asker olmasını isteyen bir baba, çok önemli bir bilim adamı olan oğlunun ödül aldığı bir gecede, oğlu sahnede kendisine teşekkür ederken, kendi omuzlarına dokunarak apoletlerini gösterir ve oğluna şu mesajı verir: Ne olursan ol, gözüme giremeyeceksin. Ebeveynlerin çocukları üzerindeki bu benim olamadığım her şeyi sen ol, benim yapamadığım her şeyi sen … Read more