Eurosphere agenda: “Commission won’t call Castro a dictator…”French primaries…

Commission won’t call Castro a dictator  EUobserver.com – Headline News The EU executive says that a statement decribing the former Cuban leader as a “hero for many” is balanced and suggests that the use of the word dictator by a commissioner doesn’t reflect its position. France’s next President could be an Islamophobic “Thatcherite” who wants to dismantle … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Tahir Elçi remembered…

Killing of Diyarbakır bar head Tahir Elçi becoming unsolved murder, widow says The killing of Tahir Elçi, the Diyarbakır Bar Association head who was killed in an armed clash in November 2015 in Diyarbakır, is becoming an unsolved murder, his wife has said, as she commemorated the first year of her husband’s death. Only Power Rules: Turkey After … Read more

Digitizing old photos with Google’s new app: PhotoScan

Google now wants our oldest photos that remain in old family photo albums. Newly released mobile app PhotoScan helps you to do that. Of course, I have scanned the oldest photos and Google totally owns me now:)  

As Post-Truth is the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year, other “Top Trending Words and Phrases of 2016

Post-Truth is the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog Post-Truth is the 2016 Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Top Trending Words and Phrases of 2016, Thus Far: Bigly, Brexit & Non-binary  The Global Language Monitor Top Trending Words and Phrases of 2016, Thus Far: Bigly, Brexit & Non-binary AUSTIN, Texas July 15-17, … Read more

Istanbul news roundup: “Madame Tussauds to open in Istanbul (@mt_istanbul)

Here is the website: https://www.madametussauds.com/istanbul/en/ Madame Tussauds to open in Istanbul   The Madame Tussauds Museum, home to many wax sculptures of celebrities and one of the most-visited tourist attractions in the world, has opened a new branch in Istanbul Shapeless’ creatures at Istanbul exhibition ‘Shapeless Mass,’ a solo exhibition featuring ‘incomplete, formless and imperfect’ figures can be … Read more