These fake ‘fact-checkers’ are peddling lies about genocide and censorship in Turkey Poynter (blog) Last October, a Marxist hacker collective, The Red Hack, leaked the personal email archive of Turkey’s Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, who is also Erdogan’s son-in-law. The email archive featured the budget for a think-tank, Bosphorus Global, to be run Reuters’ new survey … Read more
We Will Sustain Our Relations with Qatar, Says Erdoğan Bianet :: English Erdoğan has said that he doesn’t find seven countries cutting ties with Qatar for “supporting terrorism” wrong. Turkey approves draft bill approving troop deployment in Qatar Turkey’s parliament on June 7 approved a draft bill allowing its troops to be deployed to a Turkish military … Read more
Chair of Amnesty International Turkey swept up in post-coup purge amnesty.org – Jun 6, 7:06 PM Responding to the news that Taner Kiliç, the Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, was today detained by police along with 22 other lawyers in Izmir on suspicion of having links with the Fethullah Gülen movement, Salil Shetty, Amnesty International Amnesty … Read more
Germany to Withdraw Forces From Incirlik Base in Turkey NYT > Turkey by By ALISON SMALE The Turkish government refused to guarantee that German lawmakers could visit troops at the facility, deepening a rift between the NATO allies. US resolution over Washington brawl is against spirit of alliance: Turkish Foreign Ministry The Foreign Ministry has said a … Read more
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election The Intercept by Matthew Cole Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained … Read more
Anthropology in an Age of ‘Dangerous Nonsense’ (Part 1) Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology In the waning moments of 2016, one man, armed with an AR-15 and “information” about a conspiracy related to Hilary Clinton, walked into a DC pizza parlor hell bent on finding truth. After a quick look around and a shot … Read more
Women in #Kütahya protest construction of museum on their grazing land. #Turkey https://t.co/g2Q9IZbvJK pic.twitter.com/KLkdR9cKmH — Inga Rogg (@ingarogg) June 2, 2017
Europe will grace over 8000 towns and villages with free public Wi-Fi The Next Web by Mix Last year, the European Commission convened to ponder over equipping numerous public spaces in member states across the continent with free wireless connectivity, ultimately pledging $134 million to reach this goal. ACT NOW! In 9 days, the European Parliament could … Read more
Major internet access issues in Turkey as Cloudflare knocked offline Turkey Blocks – Editorial – Jun 4, 3:33 PM The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has detected access failures affecting hundreds of websites hosted on the Cloudflare CDN including popular news sites Cumhuriyet, Diken, BirGun and several other mobile apps as of 1AM local time. Newsonomics: In … Read more
Views from 3 June 2017 Beşiktaş retain Turkish league title – News – UEFA.com UEFA.com–May 28, 2017 Beşiktaş have retained the Turkish title thanks to some sharply … the Black Eagles sealing their UEFA Champions League return next term
Despite brutal police attacks, Veli Saçılık continues to demand his job back, and "resist for, and on behalf of, humanity" @velisacilik pic.twitter.com/RttvF9MSwF — BarışAkademisyenleri (@BarisAkademik) June 2, 2017