Social media frenzy over Beşiktaş coach’s ‘last look’ at striker Cenk Tosun amid reports of Everton transfer Hurriyet Daily News Beşiktaş coach Şenol Güneş’s emotional gaze at Cenk Tosun, after the striker found the net in a Turkey Cup game late on Dec. 28, has heated up rumors that Tosun will sign with English Premier … Read more
[I could not find if those photos are already presented online…just the news…] On their days off, Syrian refugees who live in the slums of the southern province of Adana shoot photographs and practice photography with Mustafa Gülek, a freelance photographer….read here
Selda Bağcan to sing at Burning Man 2018 Hurriyet Daily News Turkish protest musician Selda Bağcan has been invited to Burning Man 2018, which has been held in the deserts of the U.S. state of Nevada for 31 years, hosting tens of thousands of visitors from around the world. Erdoğan ‘hug’ stirs security debate A debate has … Read more
New gov’t decrees pave way for militia forces, granting immunity to civilians ‘suppressing terror’ Ahval The latest of Turkey’s state of emergency government decrees were published in the Official Gazette on Sunday, not only purging thousands of civil servants from their jobs, but also granting legal immunity to ‘those who took to the streets during … Read more
Turkey: the number of asylum requests has tripled over the last two years Lastest news – Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso by sostieni@balcanicaucaso.org (Fazıla Mat) Following the attempted coup d’état, the number of asylum requests from Turkish citizens for countries in the EU, Germany in particular, continues to rise Wikipedia should blame itself for ban in Turkey: Minister Hurriyet … Read more
Anthropology’s Top Findings of 2017 SAPIENS by Aaron Brooks “Fossil scout” Pedro Boshoff inside the Rising Star cave system in South Africa, where Homo naledi fossils were found. Wits University This year’s anthropological findings brought us fascinating insights from across the globe, upending long-held assumptions about the evolutionary timeline, human dispersal, and more. There were almost too many great … Read more
DETAILS TO FOLLOW: Academics Whose Second Trials Held Make Statement of Defense Bianet :: English Second hearings of trial of seven academics from İstanbul University and Galatasaray University are held at 32nd Heavy Penal Court. In Turkey, academics asking for peace are accused of terrorism | Judith Butler and Başak Ertür World news: Turkey | … Read more
Record number of journalists jailed as Turkey, China, Egypt pay scant price for repression Committee to Protect Journalists For the second year in a row, the number of journalists imprisoned for their work hit a historical high, as the U.S. and other Western powers failed to pressure the world’s worst jailers–Turkey, China, and Egypt–into improving … Read more
Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook [Belfer Center/Harvard Kennedy School] The Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government has published a nonpartisan Cybersecurity Campaign Playbook, as part of its Defending Digital Democracy project (previously, “designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our … Read more
Huge protests in Istanbul in support of Palestinians and Jerusalem Middle East Monitor Thousands of police officers were deployed across Istanbul from early on Friday morning to secure the protests and close city streets to avoid traffic jams. The protesters raised the Turkish and Palestinian flags, photographs of the martyrs of the MV Mavi Marmara — the flagship … Read more
[Ticker] EU anti-terror chief: no proof Gulen network is terrorist group EUobserver.com – Headline News The EU’s counterterrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove said in an interview with Reuters published on Thursday that the EU does not see the movement of cleric Fethullah Gulen “as a terrorist organisation, and I don’t believe the EU is likely to change … Read more
My heavily worked research on political trolls still waiting to be published- hopefully in April 2018. In the meantime, have a taste of what I am into within this co-authored work with Duygu Karataş. Thanks to her, this article could be ready to be published in International Journal of Digital Television. Online political trolling in … Read more
I am happy to hear that one of the works I worked hard on has finally been published: “The role of social media-based citizen journalism practices in the formation of contemporary protest movements” by Erkan Saka It is a chapter in this book: Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent Edited by Barrie Axford, Didem Buhari-Gulmez, Seckin … Read more
Nearly 2,000 women killed in eight years in Turkey Hurriyet Daily News Nearly 2,000 women have been killed over the past eight years in Turkey, according to statistics gathered by a website tracking femicides across the country based on reports by the Bianet news website. Education Ministry blasts PISA, defends memorization as a ‘traditional learning practice’ … Read more
Vaka incelemelerine Medyascope, Turkuvaz Medya Grubu ve BluTV eklenmesi kesinleşti. Bunun dışında tekliflere ya da güncellemelere açığız. 2. BASKI İÇİN KATKI ÇAĞRISI: DİJİTAL DÖNEMDE GAZETECİLİK İÇİN YENİ İŞ MODELLERİ Kitabımızın ilk baskısı beklediğimizden daha çok ilgi ve katkı gördü. Ancak kitap bir bakıma eksik kalmıştı, ikinci baskıda daha çok vaka çalışması ve daha çok … Read more